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This 1896 essay laid out Theodor Herzl's argument that the 'profound barbarism of anti-Semitism in Europe' meant the Jewish problem was political and required a political solution. Herzl further developed the idea of a Jewish state in a subsequent pamphlet.
He first lays this out in his 1896 essay, A Solution to the Jewish Question, which argues that with the, quote-unquote, profound barbarism of anti-Semitism in Europe, the continent's Jewish problem is...
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This 1896 essay laid out Theodor Herzl's argument that the 'profound barbarism of anti-Semitism in Europe' meant the Jewish problem was political and required a political solution. Herzl further developed the idea of a Jewish state in a subsequent pamphlet.
He first lays this out in his 1896 essay, A Solution to the Jewish Question, which argues that with the, quote-unquote, profound barbarism of anti-Semitism in Europe, the continent's Jewish problem is a political for requires a political solution.
He further develops this idea of a Jewish state in a subsequent pamphlet called the Jewish state, and is convinced that nations the world over will love the idea, too.