The Second Zionist Congress in Basel - an important collection from the days when the Congress took place

The Second Zionist Congress in Basel - an important collection from the days when the Congress took place

Four early publications on the Second Congress held in Basel in 1898. Some published a few days before it took place, and some immediately after it.

* Reden gehalten auf dem II Zionisten Congresse zu Bazel [speeches of Herzl Nordau and others in the Second Zionist Congress]. Vienna, 1898. Booklet in which the speeches of Herzl, Max Nordau, Dr. Max Mandelstam and Rabbi Moshe Gaster were printed. As part of the decisions of the Congress, the decision was made to print and distribute this booklet. (Gaster's speech was quoted "because of the strong impression he made on the listeners in its rhetorical beauty"). On the back of the booklet "Verlag des Vereines "Erez Israel": [Published by the Eretz Israel Association]. German.

* Ideas for the Second Zionist Congress by Dr. Mordechai Ehrenfries, Ahiasaf Publishing. Berlin, 1898. The pamphlet was published a few days before the congress, in which Dr. Ehrenfreiz laid out his views on the purpose of this congress ('The second congress should be a congress of internal work ... at the second assembly we are waiting for real work in all branches of the movement').

* Stenographic protocol (complete) from the negotiations at the Second Zionist Congress in the city of Basel 10-22 Elul 1898. Warsaw 1899. protocol of all the speeches of the various speakers in the Congress, with Herzl at their center, with a chronological division according to the days in which the Congress took place.

* Knesset Hagdolah or the Second Congress in Basel. Details of all proceedings of the Second Congress in Basel, meetings, negotiations, speeches and resolutions. Edited by Nahum Slushtz. Warsaw 1898. Extensive overview of the great moments in the Congress.

General condition: good - very good.