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Hans's parents, although Jewish, did not believe in [[Brit Milah| ritual circumcision]], so he was not [[circumcised]] in accordance with the alleged [[Abrahamic covenant]].
== Hans's circumcision ==
Hans's father died when he was 13 and his mother was addicted to morphine, so he was placed in the custody of Zionist Jews in England who decided to have him [[circumcised]] at age 15,<ref name="suicide1930">{{REFweb
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}}</ref>At the age of 20 he felt unable to form a true relationship with a woman. Perhaps it was because of the [[Adolescent and adult circumcision | circumcision]] he underwent at the age of 15.<ref name="shavit2000">{{REFnews
|title=The Doomed Dynasty
|url=https://archive.jewishagency.org/herzl/content/25465/
He never was able to overcome the physical and psychic [[trauma]] of his circumcision. He never married, nor did he seem to have an occupation. According to Singer, "[h]e ultimately settled in London, where he earned a meager living translating his father’s writings, but the work was intermittent and he struggled financially all his life."<ref name="suicide1930" />
==Suicide==
His sister, Pauline, died at Bordeaux, France in 1930 when he was 39. After the funeral, Hans used a firearm to take his own life in his hotel room.<ref name="suicide1930" /> <ref name="jta1930" />
|Author=Hans Herzl
|ref=<ref>{{REFweb
|title=Manta – Rediscover America's Small BusinessStephen Theodore Norman—the last descendant of Theodor Herzl
|url=http://web.archive.org/web/20110615054348/http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-6909579/Stephen-Theodore-Norman-the-last.html
|archived=yes
==Burial==
Hans was buried in a Jewish cemetery at Bordeaux along with his sister Paulinein 1930.<ref name="suicide1930" /> However, in 2004 the Israeli government had the remains of Pauline and Hans exhumed and reburied in the national cemetery on [https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/mount-herzl Mount Herzl ] near the grave of their honored father, [[Theodor Herzl]].<ref name="suicide1930" />{{SEEALSO}}* [[Jonathon Conte]]* [[Suicide]]
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