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[[File:Theodor_Herzl.jpg|thumb|{{Construction SiteFULLPAGENAME}}]]'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' ({{LifeData|birth=1860-05-02|birthplace=Pest|birthcountry=Kingdom of Hungary|death=1904-05-03|deathplace=Edlach|deathcountry=Austria}})==Zionism==Confronted with [[antisemitism]] was born into an Ashkenazi Jewish family in Pest, Hungary. Some Sephardic ancestry has been suggested but has not been documented. The family later moved to Vienna, Hertzl reached the conclusion that anti-Jewish sentiment would make Jewish assimilation impossibleAustria, and that after the only solution for Jews was the establishment of a Jewish state. His idea was was well receive and eventually resulted in the creation of the nation death of Israelhis sister Pauline.
== Zionism ==Confronted with [[antisemitism]] in Vienna, Herzl reached the conclusion that anti-Jewish sentiment would make Jewish assimilation impossible, and that the only solution for Jews was the establishment of a Jewish state. His idea was was well received and eventually resulted in the creation of the nation of [[Israel]] on 14 May 1948. ==Family life==Hertzl Herzl married Julie Naschauer, the 21-year-old daughter of a wealthy Jewish businessman in Vienna on 25 June 1889. The marriage resulted in the birth of two girls and one boy, [[Hans HertzlHerzl]]. == Views regarding circumcision ==Although the Herzl family was strongly Jewish, Herzl and his wife did not support [[Brit Milah|circumcision]] as required by the alleged [[Abrahamic covenant]], so when Hans was born on 10 June 1891,<ref>{{REFweb |url=https://www.geni.com/people/Hans-Herzl/6000000007014376451 |title=Hans Herzl |last= |first= |init= |publisher=https://www.geni.com |date=2022-04-27 |accessdate=2024-02-19}}</ref> they protected Hans from the [[pain]] and [[trauma]] of [[Brit Milah]] on the eighth day, although that was customary for Jews. {{PUB}}* {{REFbook |last=Herzl |first=Theodor |init= |author-link=Theodor Herzl |year=1896 |title=Der Judenstaat |url= |scope= |location=Leipzig & Vienna |publisher=M. Breitenstein's Verlags-Buchhandlung |ISBN= |accessdate= }} == Death and re-interment ==Herzl died of heart failure on 3 May 1904 when he was 44 and his [[intact]] son Hans was 13. Herzl was buried in the [https://mahlerfoundation.org/mahler/locations/austria/vienna/dobling-cemetery/ Döbling Cemetery]of Vienna, but later was exhumed and re-interred in the national cemetery on 17 August 1949 in a special location of great honor chosen by a special commission on [https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/mount-herzl Mount Herzl], a prominence with a height of 834 meters near Jerusalem that was named in Herzl's honor.<ref>{{REFweb |url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/mount-herzl#herzl |title=Theodor Herzl’s Grave |last= |first= |init= |publisher=Jewish Virtual Library |date= |accessdate=2024-02-19}}</ref> His other family members also were later re-interred in the Mount Herzl national cemetery.
== Views regarding circumcision ==
Although the Hertzl family was strongly Jewish, Hertzl and his wife did not support [[Brit Milah| circumcision]] as required by the alleged [[Abrahamic covenant]], so they refused to have Hans [[circumcised]] on the eighth day as was customary for Jews.
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