Herzl was a largely assimilated Jew living in Austria.
Herzl writes-- as I said, he was a novelist-- Herzl writes a series of essays and novels trying to describe this new land that he
with the Werner Herzog documentary, where Werner Herzog is like, overdubbing, explaining the thinking of the penguin. But the
- And just as Werner Herzog says, you know, "There's certain death." Now, he doesn't romanticize it. He says the penguin is just deranged and crazy.
I started the anecdote about Theodor Herzl, and the heroes of the new land will be the water engineers.
hi um my name is Andy herzfeld I was one of the original Macintosh designers uh
I don't know if anyone's seen "Fitzcarraldo," Werner Herzog's-- one of his early movies.
of mine-- who is a filmmaker named Werner Herzog-- recommended to me.
And this had a remarkable and galvanizing effect on Herzl.
Those of you who have had the joy of seeing Werner Herzog's most recent film, "The Cave of Forgotten Dreams," you have
The MFI-- the Kiva partner in Bosnia and Herzegovina at the time was a branch of an international women's organization called Women for Women International that do amazing work in some
face of kosova from Afghanistan to Bosnia and Herzegovina nearly 40 000
- Yeah, the brutality of nature— Werner Herzog comes to mind. They have to live in that.
Now what's remarkable about that-- and I won't get back to Herzl further, but I just want to give you some context for who he was
for them. Then in the 1930's Curt Herzstark, an Austrian, had this idea for this new sort of system, an engineering system, that he can make a pocket sized one. And it took him 20 years
If you go to a cafe in Tel Aviv or in Jerusalem or Herzliya, you're gonna hear a lot of people talking about politics.
But you can't tell them, take me to Herzl 22, because they don't know how to read a map.
But then when you're sad, you have to be-- I think it was Herzog who said, a director can never cry on set, and it's true.
place. I asked the President of Bosnia, in Herzigo- Herzegovina, Izetbegovic, what would have happened if we had bombed in 1992, he said it would have changed everything. It
- I'm out. - ... leaves the tribe and just goes towards the mountains, and as Werner Herzog says, "Towards certain death." It
Might be a bit challenging to do that photo by the way, because it's now Bosnia and Herzegovina Community Advice Centre.
I got a position working at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe , which is the largest international body with working in Bosnia-Herzegovina,
The founding prophet of Israel was not David Ben-Gurion or Chaim Weizmann, the first President and Prime Minister of the country, but a man named Theodor Herzl.
And the paintings-- there's a lot of incompetence and beginner cave art that doesn't get reproduced in the art books and the Herzog film.
Luckily for us, the audiobook, which was read in this country by Samuel L Jackson, and also Werner Herzog did a version