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Old-New Land

Old-New Land

( German - Altneuland - 1902 )

novel by Theodor Herzl

translated by Lotta Levensohn

Published: Block Publishing Co. - hardback - 1941 ( reprinted 1960? )
ISBN: none

Haifa Publishing Co. - hardback - 1960 ( translated by Paula Arnold )
ISBN: none

Markus Wiener - trade paperback - 1987 ( English / German parallel text ? )
ISBN: 0910129614 / 9780910129619

Markus Wiener - paperback - 1997
ISBN: 1558761608 / 9781558761605

Filiquarian Publishing - trade paperback - 2007 ( POD )
ISBN: 159986830X / 9781599868301

W L C - paperback - 2009 ( titled as Altneuland: The Old-New-Land ) ( POD )
ISBN: 1557427313 / 9781557427311

CreateSpace - trade paperback - 2011 ( POD )
ISBN: 1463587333 / 9781463587338

CreateSpace - trade paperback - 2012 ( POD )
ISBN: 1491045140 / 9781491045145


synopsis
Tells the story of Friedrich Löwenberg, a young Jewish Viennese intellectual, who, tired with European decadence, joins an Americanized Prussian aristocrat named Kingscourt as they retire to a remote Pacific island ( it is specifically mentioned as being part of the Cook Islands, near Raratonga ). Stopping in Jaffa on their way to the Pacific, they find Palestine a backward, destitute and sparsely populated land, as it appeared to Herzl on his visit in 1898. They spend the following twenty years on the island, cut off from civilization. As they pass through Palestine on their way back to Europe, they discover a land drastically transformed, showcasing a free, open and cosmopolitan modern society, and boasting a thriving cooperative industry based on state-of-the-art technology.

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