Nordau's Judenstaat

“Zionism and Anti-Semitism” is a pamphlet published circa 1900 (my edition has no publication date). The authors, the German Jew Max Nordau and the American Jewish rabbi, Gustav Gottheil, were both prominent Zionists. Nordau is also known as a cultural critic and novelist. Personally, I don't think the pamphlet is very interesting. Nordau's article is an introduction to the history, aims and activities of the Zionist movement. Gottheil's article is a polemic against anti-Semitism, which he believes is somehow anti-Christian, since the Bible is “Semitic”. But yes, perhaps I'm being unfair. I'm looking at the text with the benefit of hindsight. Today, most Jews are Zionists and have their own state in Palestine. Thus, we heard all of this before (also, Nordau seems to follow Theodore Herzl's arguments in “Der Judenstaat” closely). Nordau's and Gottheil's text were probably more controversial when published, since Zionism was then very much a fringe movement. I will give this opus three stars. For your private Zionist reference library only.