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...Aviv, Palestine's modern all-Jewish city, streets are customarily named after Zionist heroes (Theodor Herzl, Baron Rothschild, Field Marshal Lord Allenby, etc.). Last week, when the city fathers pondered street names for a new suburb, a councilman suggested: Why not name the streets after the Ten Commandments...
...child, crumpled into a tree, and exploded, blowing the two occupants into tattered shreds. Several houses on both sides of the street collapsed as the mines went off. All that remained of one Arab-style villa was a wall with a torn picture of Dr. Theodor Herzl, founder of Zionism...
...Question. Fifty years ago Herzl, after presiding at the first Zionist Congress, wrote in his diary that within 50 years the world would have heard of his dream of a Jewish state. Last week delegates to the 22nd World Zionist Congress, meeting in Basel, Switzerland, where Herzl's group had met, knew with pride and some disquiet that his prophecy had been fulfilled...
...first great leader of modern Zionism (the name given the Return) was Theodor Herzl, who had been a foppish Viennese journalist until the Dreyfus case in France convinced him that Jews could never hope to be assimilated by other peoples. Herzl, who once claimed to sum up life in the words of a French popular song ("Life is vain, a bit of hope, a bit of hate, and then-good night!"), suddenly became the dynamic leader of Russian ghetto dwellers. At first he favored a British suggestion that persecuted Jews settle in fertile Uganda, but he found his followers would...
...House and New Brunswick, N. J., Cyrus Cole Decoster, Jr., St. Paul, Minn., MacDonald Deming, Lowell House and New York City, Robert William Furlong, Winthrop House and West Roxbury, Lemuel Burrows Hunter, Dunster House and Wellesley Hills, Hubert Henry Nexon, Kirkland House and Brookline, Theodore Cabot Osborne, Boston, Theodore Herzl Rome, Dunster House and Worcester, William Aaron Salant, Kirkland House and New York City, Robert Ellis Shalan, Dunster House and Brooklyn, N. Y., William Vick Smith, Winthrop House and Medford, Sheldon Charles Sommers, Eliot House and Indianapolis, Ind., Arthur Szathmary, Adams House and Quincy, Walter Bigelow Rosen, Eliot House...