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LOT 84:
Private Mailbox of Isidor Schalit Binyamin Ze'ev Hertzl Personal Secretary and Head of the Zionist Histadrut in Austria.
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Private Mailbox of Isidor Schalit Binyamin Ze'ev Hertzl Personal Secretary and Head of the Zionist Histadrut in Austria.
Dr. Isidor Schalit
One of the close assistants to Theodore Herzl and his personal secretary. After Herzl published his book "Der Judenstaat", he was offered by Schalit to form a brigade of 2000 Jewish volunteers that will conquer Jaffa out of the hands of the Ottomans and determine facts on the ground that will "put Zionism at he center of world attention"; however Herzl rejected the offer.
Schalit, who was one of the organizers and participants of the first Zionist Congress (Basel 1897), was the first secretary of the limited Hapo'el Council (1897-1905), and has also served as publisher and editor of the Zionist Movement journal "Die Welt " (from 1897). In the fifth Zionist World Congress (1901) Isidor was head of the action commitee formed by KAKAL followinng the recommendation of Zvi Hermann Shapira in the first Zionist congress. As of 1905 he served as the head of the Zionist Histadrut in Vienna.
Later on he was one of the organizers of the 10th congress, the 13th and the 14th.
He was a dentist in Tel Aviv, a publicist and one of the heads of the Zionist movement in Vienna.
Was found at the flee market with additional documents of Isildor verifying the item's ownership.
Passed away in Tel Aviv, 16.1.1954.
