Norman Kotker

Herzl The King (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel About the Founder of Modern Israel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

On a hill overlooking Jerusalem, the once-mocked Theodor Herzl lies buried in honor as the man who envisioned the modern Jewish state. Neither warrior nor financier, neither theologian nor trained statesman, he was simply a foresighted Viennese journalist who at the beginning of the 20th century brought together from all parts of Europe those Jews able to assess the coming anti-Semitism and join him in the Zionist movement. Like Moses, Herzl led his people to the promised land but did not get to enter it-dying in his forties, alone, and broken by the still-unrealized task. Here is his story.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Road Distribution
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781504028806
• Artikelnr.: 44154914

Autorenporträt

The novelist and popular historian Norman Kotker (1931-1999) began his writing career with The Earthly Jerusalem, a much-respected history of Israel's great city. Turning his researcher's eye to a personal hero, he went on to write his first novel-this splendidly-documented biographical tale of Theodor Herzl. Born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, Kotker graduated from Harvard College, became an associate editor for Horizon magazine, editor of Horizon Books, and ultimately editor and vice president at Charles Scribner's Sons. His fiction, which would include Miss Rhode Island, Learning About God, and Billy in Love, won grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.