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Lot #    11965
Auction End Date    11/1/2005 10:43:26 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Der Baseler Congress
Author    [Zionism - First Ed.] Dr. Theodor Herzl
City    Vienna
Publisher    Welt
Publication Date    1897
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. 22 pp., 202:146 mm., light age staining. A very good copy bound in the original title-pastedown boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    Herzl's aims and goals for the First Zionist Congress, held in Basle on Aug. 29–31, 1897. It was the first interterritorial gathering of Jews on a national and secular basis. The congress adopted the program of the Zionist movement, which came to be known as the Basle Program, and established the World Zionist Organization as the political organization of the "Jewish people en route." Herzl chaired the First Congress (as he did the five subsequent congresses held in his lifetime) and was elected president of the World Zionist Organization, retaining that office until his death. In spite of a heart disease, which grew worse as a result of overwork and strain, and notwithstanding the attacks upon him by opponents within the Zionist Organization and outside of it, Herzl persevered in his dedication to two principal aims: "The establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in Erez Israel," as formulated in the Basle Program, with the agreement of the Powers and of Turkey to be achieved by diplomatic negotiations; and building and strengthening the World Zionist Organization in order to create an instrument that would carry weight in the political and financial negotiations with external factors and would be capable of carrying out the settlement of Erez Israel.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Austria
  
Subject
Other:    Zionism
  
Characteristic
Bindings:    Checked
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    German
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica