Dreyfus affair Archives

Herzl used the stage to examine his own attempts to assimilate into European culture. Protagonist Jacob Samuel breathes his last in the final scene of The New Ghetto

Herzl’s Psychodrama

Internal Eruption Surprisingly, prior to October 1894, even Theodor Herzl didn’t think a Jewish state was possible. On October 17, reviewing a play for his longtime employer, Vienna’s Neue Freie Presse daily, Herzl slammed the...

19th century

anti-Semitism

Literature and Culture

Theodor Herzl

Vienna

Portrait of a People | Father of French Impressionism

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel Boulevard Montmartre, Afternoon SunOil on canvas92.8 x 74 cmParis, 1897Hermitage Museum,St. Petersburg Camille Pissarro1830-1903 Impressionism The tags hanging in museums the world over next to Pissarro’s famous landscapes, cityscapes, and pointillist figures don’t...