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February 17, 2016

The British Reverend Who Helped Smooth Herzl’s Path

And got him an audience with the Kaiser.

A deeply pious Christian, William Hechler was the chaplain of the British embassy to Vienna when he first read of Theodor Herzl’s Zionist movement. Already an opponent of anti-Semitism and an ardent advocate of the Jews’ return to their homeland, he quickly became one of Herzl’s most devoted collaborators. Jürgen Bühler writes:

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