Theodor Herzl

About the Book

Theodor Herzl, Architect of a Nation, is the compelling account of a complex individual who sacrificed his health and family in pursuit of an ideal: the establishment of a homeland where Jews throughout the world could go to escape anti-Semitism. “If you will it, it is no dream,” he said.

This book sheds valuable light on a man whose short, eventful life helped create and shape the modern State of Israel. Norman H. Finkelstein focuses on the ideas that Herzl gave to the Zionist movement and on the grand diplomacy and political maneuvering to which he devoted his life.

About the Author

Norman H. Finkelstein, a former school librarian, is the author of eighteen highly acclaimed nonfiction books. Two of his books won National Jewish Book Awards; another, the Golden Kite Honor Book Award for Nonfiction. One reviewer wrote that he “tells a fascinating story, and if it sounds like fiction sometimes, it’s a tribute to his storytelling power.”