Lucien Wolf and Theodore Herzl

FOR many years past I have been intending to study the Zionist activities of Lucien Wolf and his relations with Theodor Herzl. But it seemed almost as if fate were against it. The research was beset by constant difficulties since it appears as though Lucien Wolf regarded his work for Zionism as a youthful aberration of which he did not wish ever to be reminded.

Three great men stood at the side of Theodor Herzl at the dawn of Political Zionism, but after some time all three denounced Political Zionism and became estranged from Herzl.

Chief Rabbi Dr. Moritz Guedemann of Vienna who, at the beginning was a sup? porter of Herzl and?like Lucien Wolf?later published an anti-Zionist pamphlet entitled National Judaism, at first refused to be reminded of his original enthusiasm for Zionism. But years later, in the Memoirs intended only for his family, he described his meetings with

Written by

Josef Fraenkel

Published in

Volume 20

1959

Other articles within the volume

• John Braham, Singer
• The Russian Background of the Anglo-American Jewish Immigration
• The Hope of Israel, A Breife Epistle, and Silex Scintillans
• Lewis Way and His Times
• The Jews in Medieval York
• Notes on the Jews’ Tribute in Jamaica
• Address [in Celebration of the 70th Anniversary of the Foundation of the Society]
• Lucien Wolf and Theodore Herzl
• The Pre-Expulsion Cemetery of the Jews in London
• Emunat Omen by Meyer Sch?mberg
• Dr. Meyer Schomberg’s Attack on the Jews of London, 174
• Some Ashkenazi Charities* in London at the End of the Eighteenth and the Beginning of the Nineteenth Centuries
• The Wanderers and Other Jewish Scholars of My Youth1
• The Correspondence of the Mahamad of the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation of London during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
• Preface