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Altneuland Theodor Herzl The novel "Altneuland" was written in 1902 by Theodor Herzl. One could see it as an illustration to his earlier book " Der Judenstaat"1. While "Der Judenstaat" contains the theoretical background of the Zionist idea, "Altneuland" describes how exactly the realization of that theory might look like. "Altneuland" is divided into five books, which might be seen as an analogy to the five books of the Torah. This also leads to the thought that "Altneuland" might be seen as the new torah, the new guide towards a new life, coexisting with the torah. Herzl wrote "Der Judenstaat" as a solution for the problems Jews encountered worldwide. He saw it as a national problem2 and therefore the only solution he could think of was the reunion of the Jewish people as one people3 in one national state, the Jewish state. By drawing the Jewish masses from their Diaspora states to...

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