Old New Land forever altered the face of the Middle East.
His prophecy at the end of this book became reality: "If you will it, it is not a fable." The aut.
There were Jewish settlers in Palestine, and Zionist ideas had existed in Eastern Europe before Herzl, but Herzl made Zionism into a cultural and political movement acceptable to Western governments and intellectuals.
The book was a nineteenth-century utopian blueprint for a modern state of Israel.
Old New Land forever altered the face of the Middle East