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Article: The Labyrinth of Exile: A Life of Theodor Herzl.
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- The New Leader
- Article date:
- December 11, 1989
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The Labyrinth of Exile: A Life of Theodor Herzl
IN THE TIMES of exile, the Talmud says, the gift of prophecy has been given to children and fools. Had they been prophets themselves, the Rabbis could have foretold the strange and spectacular fate of Theodor Herzl. Founder of the Zionist movement and architect of its major institutions, hero to generations of downtrodden Jews, Herzl emerges from the pages of this superbly written and immensely thoughtful biography as both child and fool, a seriously flawed man. But it is a measure of Ernst Pawel's deep humanity and wonderful sense of irony that he also understands the historical circumstances that helped his ...
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