Big preparations for the commemoration on May 2nd of the 70th birthday of Dr. Theodore Herzl, founder of political Zionism and first president of the World Zionist Organization, are being made here now by the Austrian Zionists. Dr. Leo Motzkin, chairman of the Zionist Actions Committee, is coming here from Paris to address the meeting which will, on account of the Sabbath, take place Saturday evening May 3. On Sunday, May 4th, a great procession of Austrian Zionists will march to the cemetery where Dr. Herzl was buried.
Dr. Herzl was born in Budapest on May 2nd, 1860. He was educated in Vienna, where he afterwards engaged in journalism, joining the staff of the Vienna “Neue Freie Presse,” on which he held the position of literary editor till his death on July 3rd, 904. He also wrote many plays which were produced on the Vienna stage. It was in Vienna that Dr. Herzl started his Zionist activity, addressing his first public meeting on behalf of Zionism.
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