Theodor Herzl: From Assimilation to ZionismAn original and brilliant thesis, exposing a long misunderstood figure. A great book. Bernard Avishai Excellent . . . a highly revealing portrait that demolishes Herzl the icon. Michael Marrus Other biographers . . . have illuminated aspects of [Herzl's] life, but none has been able to produce the kind of intellectual biography that we have here. Jacques Kornberg has done an admirable job of plumbing the depths of Herzl's mind to try to come to an