HERZL - A NEW READING

It seems that everything has already been written and published about Theodor Herzl, and even so, the misunderstanding and even the distortion clouding his image are the clearest symptoms of the identity crisis that afflicts Israeli society today. A hundred years and more have passed since the death of the state contract, and it is appropriate to remove from his face the various masks that have distorted his portrait to this day and restore to them both the Jewish dimension and the universal dimension. Dr. Yitzhak Weiss's book, the fruit of eight years of research, sets this goal for itself. This is not another biography of Herzl, but a sharp criticism of what has been written in the past and an invitation to a new reading. Indeed, another Herzl emerges from the pages of the book, and he is the justification for the addition which appears in the title of the book - a new, innovative and even daring reading. "Dr. Weiss sheds light on a certain facet of Herzl's Gothic and Zionist texture