Old New Land

Old New Land forever altered the face of the Middle East. The book was a nineteenth-century utopian blueprint for a modern state of Israel. There were Jewish settlers in Palestine, and Zionist ideas had existed in Eastern Europe before Herzl, but Herzl made Zionism into a cultural and political movement acceptable to Western governments and intellectuals. His prophecy at the end of this book became reality: "If you will it, it is not a fable." The author, founder of the Zionist movement, considered this utopian story his best literary work: an expression of his art, with a political message. His biographer, Amos Elon, placed Old New Land "in the mainstream of fin-de-siecle art. Its pursuit of arcadian bliss within a mystic community and its haunted preoccupation with dreams recall Gustav Mahler's music."

• | Author: Theodor Herzl
• | Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers
• | Publication Date: Jun 21, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 340 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1558766472
• | ISBN-13: 9781558766471