On the 120th Anniversary of the First Zionist Congress
An Introduction to Researching the First Zionist Congress at the Center for Jewish History
120 years ago, on August 29, 1987, Theodor Herzl convened the first
Zionist Congress in the city of Basel with 200 participants from 17 countries.
“If I were to sum up the Basel Congress in a single phrase—which I
would not dare to make public—I would say:…
