Theodor Herzl's pamphlet of 1896 (Der Judenstaat in German) proposing the founding of a Jewish state, which became a founding text of political Zionism. This is the French printing of 1926 by Librairie Lipschutz in Paris, which reprinted the French version of 1896-97 and added an introduction by Baruch Hagani.
Standpoint of the introduction: Hagani, who had himself written on political Zionism and on Herzl (his own earlier titles are listed on the volume's page and left out here), presents Herzl in the opening lines as "le fondateur du sionisme politique" and presents the reprint as a service to French readers who wanted first-hand documentation of the movement. It is an advocate's introduction, not a critical edition, and it is kept so that the 1926 edition is shown as it was. The English revision of 1943-46 is a different edition and is not used here.
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- Introduction par Baruch Hagani (1926) 3,158 words
- L’État juif (Herzl)
- Préface 1,055 words
- Introduction 3,704 words
- Chapitre 1 : Considérations générales 3,792 words
- Chapitre 2 : La Jewish Company 11,024 words
- Chapitre 3 : La « Society of Jews » et l’État juif 4,562 words
- Conclusion 1,281 words
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- Edition
- L'État juif: essai d'une solution de la question juive, édition augmentée d'une introduction par Baruch Hagani. Paris: Librairie Lipschutz, 1926 (Project Gutenberg's transcription of a scan from the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Gallica)
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- Project Gutenberg, ebook #78478
- Text basis
- Project Gutenberg's transcription (released April 2026) of images supplied by the BnF/Gallica. Herzl's pamphlet is the French version first printed in the Nouvelle Revue Française Internationale in December 1896 and January 1897, which Hagani's note says the 1926 edition kept with its grammatical imperfections; it is not the English revision of 1943-46.
- Rights
- Published in Paris in 1926, so in the public domain in the United States (published before 1931); Project Gutenberg marks the ebook public domain in the USA. Herzl died in 1904. The 1926 introduction by Baruch Hagani is part of the same 1926 printing. Checked October 2, 2026.
- Changes made
- Line wraps rejoined and headings set in title case; the Project Gutenberg licence header and footer removed. Wording, spelling and punctuation are the source's own. The publisher's pages, Hagani's list of his own works, the printer's limitation notice, the portrait, the table of contents and the imprint are left out. Hagani's footnotes are kept where the printing puts them, and the notes of Herzl's own text stay with his text. The 1926 section headings are kept.
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