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Herzl's Dream and Its Interpretation" – A Composition Criticizing Theodor Herzl and Max Nordau – Lemberg, 1902

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Chalom Hertzel uPitrono [Herzl's Dream and Its Interpretation], by Shlomo Teplitsky. Lemberg (Lviv): The publishing house of the Journal "Kol Machzikei Hadat", 1902. Second edition.
A polemic-parodical composition, written in the spirit of conservative Judaism, by Shlomo Teplitsky – son of Rabbi Yehuda Yudel Teplitsky, Rabbi of Voznesensk (Kherson, today in Ukraine). The composition denounces the Zionist Movement and ridicules the doctrines of Theodor Herzl and Max Nordau.
The booklet was first published in Warsaw, in 1899, and was reprinted (with changes and additions) by Yehoshua Zvi Wolf, the publisher of the journal "Kol Machzikei Hadat".
[2], 38 pp, 18 cm. Good-Fair condition. Dampstains (dark stains on the cover). Creases and tears, most of them small. Tears along the spine. The back cover is partly detached.
This edition is not in NLI.
Zionism, World Zionist Congress, Herzl, JNF
Zionism, World Zionist Congress, Herzl, JNF