Labyrinth of Exile

by Ernst Pawel

Book Overview

"At the age of thirty-five, the fashionable Viennese playwright and journalist Theodor Herzl fantasized about the collective conversion of the Jews in a mass ceremony at the cathedral of St. Stephen.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374182566
• ISBN13: 9780374182564
• Release Date: November 1989
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 572 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.5" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Interesting study of Zionism and its first leader

Pawel attempts and largely succeeds at placing Herzl and the Zionist movement in its historical and cultural setting. He thoroughly and without sentiment unveils the conflicts and crises that drove Herzl to become the international leader of Zionism. The rise of Jewish nationalist sentiment and the personalities involved in its emergence are well presented. I especially enjoyed the depiction of the Vienna of Herzl's era. I recommend it for readers with an interest in the origins of the Zionist movement and its uniquely gifted leader, Theodor Herzl.