Theodor Herzl Quotes

“My earliest memories of that school consist of the thrashing I received because I did not know the details of the exodus of the Jews from Egypt. At present there are many schoolmasters who would like to thrash me because I remember that exodus from Egypt too well.”15 What might seem to be the young Herzl’s indifference toward his nation’s past takes on a completely different meaning in his account to Reuven Brainin, his first biographer:”
― Georges Yitzhak Weisz, Theodor Herzl: A New Reading