Language:
English
Year of publication:
2016
Titel der Quelle:
S: I. M. O. N.
Angaben zur Quelle:
1 (2016) 64-87
Keywords:
Herzl, Theodor, Tomb
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Jewish sepulchral monuments
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Jewish sepulchral monuments
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Zionism History
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Döbling (Vienna, Austria)
Abstract:
Theodor Herzl is mostly remembered as the founder of the Zionist movement and a significant forebear of the State of Israel, where his memory thrives today. This article posits Herzl's original gravesite in Döbling, Vienna, as instrumental to the construction of Herzl's legacy through the first part of the twentieth century, when it was used by Jewish community functionaries and Zionist organisations to mobilise a variety of political agendas. By contrast to Herzl's new burial site in Jerusalem, the now empty grave in Döbling constitutes a powerful alternative lieu de memoire, a counterbalance to the manner in which Herzl's life and memory are conceived in Israel.
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