The Labyrinth of Exile (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Ernst Pawel
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Historical biography
- Time of Work: 1860-1904
- Setting: Primarily Hungary, Austria, France, and the Middle East
- Principal Characters: Theodor Herzl, Jacob And Jeanette Diamant Herzl, Julie Naschauer Herzl, Max Nordau (born Max Simon Suedfeld), Eduard Bacher And Moriz Benedikt, Sultan Abdul Hamid Ii
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Parents and children, France or French people, Authors or writers, Jews or Jewish life, Fathers, Lawyers, Eastern Europe or eastern Europeans, Biography, Middle East, Jewish-Arab relations, Zionism
- Locales: France, Austria, Hungary, Middle East
The 1990’s will bring the hundredth anniversary of the beginning of Theodor Herzl’s quixotic quest to turn an age- old dream into reality and secure a homeland for the perennially persecuted Jewish people. Thus the appearance of this excellent biography, arguably the best of the three major books on the father of political Zionism that have been published during the past fifteen years, is particularly timely While it supplements rather than supplants Alex Bein’s classic study of 1934, it is a valuable companion to the reissue of Herzl’s utopian novel, Altneuland (1902;...
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