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Theodor Herzl (Hebrew: בנימין זאב הרצל‎ (Binyamin Ze’ev Herzl)) (May 2, 1860July 3, 1904) was a Hungarian Jewish journalist who was the father of modern political Zionism. Herzl was born in Pest, the Kingdom of Hungary (today the eastern half of Budapest, then a separate city). When Theodor was 18 his family moved to Vienna, Austria-Hungary. There, he studied law, but he devoted himself almost exclusively to journalism and literature. As a young man, Herzl was engaged in a Burschenschaft association, which strove for German unity under the motto Ehre, Freiheit, Vaterland (“Honor, Freedom, Fatherland”), and his early work did not focus on Jewish life.As the Paris correspondent for Neue Freie Presse, Herzl followed the Dreyfus Affair, a notorious anti-Semitic incident in France in which a French Jewish army captain was falsely convicted of spying for Germany. He witnessed mass rallies in Paris following the Dreyfus trial where many chanted “Death to the Jews!” Herzl came to reject his early ideas regarding Jewish emancipation and assimilation, and to believe that the Jews must remove themselves from Europe and create their own state.From April, 1896, when the English translation of his Der Judenstaat (The State of the Jews) appeared, Herzl became the leading spokesman for Zionism.Herzl complemented his writing with practical work to promote Zionism on the international stage.His supporters, at first few in number, worked night and day, inspired by Herzl’s example.In 1897 …

November 15, 1996 www.amazon.com Watch the full program: thefilmarchived.blogspot.com Walter Haskell Pincus (born December 24, 1932) is a national security journalist for The Washington Post. He has won several prizes including a Polk Award in 1977, a television Emmy in 1981, and the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in association with four other Post reporters. Pincus was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Jewish parents Jonas Pincus and Clare Glassman. After graduating from Yale University in 1954, he worked as a copy-boy for The New York Times. Drafted into the US Army in 1955, Pincus served in the Counterintelligence Corps in Washington, DC from 1955-1957. After his discharge, he worked at the copy desk of The Wall Street Journal’s Washington edition. He left in 1959 to become Washington correspondent for three North Carolina newspapers. In 1963, he moved to the Washington Star before joining The Washington Post, where he worked from 1966 to 1969. From 1972 to 1975, he was executive editor of The New Republic. He covered the Watergate Senate hearings, the House impeachment hearings of Richard Nixon and the Watergate trial, writing articles for the magazine and op-ed pieces for The Washington Post. In 1975, he returned to the Post to write for the national staff of the newspaper. When he resumed writing for the newspaper, he also was permitted to work as a part time consultant to NBC News and later CBS News, developing, writing or producing television …