To understand how Hess, Herzl and Nordau came to the same point of view about assimilation is to understand where they came from. They still had different circumstances growing up and even when they became anti-assimilation happened at different times of their life. No two Zionist thinker’s life growing up was the same yet they still came together to have the same point of view.
Moses Hess can be considered a somewhat flip floppier kind of thinker but also an advanced intellectual who studied many, many different subjects over the time period of his life. Moses Hess was born in Bonn, Germany and his parents left for Cologne in the yearly 1800s while Hess was left back in Bonn. Their reasoning for leaving him was that “his parents regarded…show more content… That unless a Jewish state if created that the Jew might disappear forever through nationals destroying what it means to be Jewish. He says in his book, The Jewish State or Der Judenstaat, (1896), he states that “We live off 'Host-nations'; and if we had no 'Host-nation' to sustain us we should starve to death. (Hertzberg P. 207)” That living off of these “host countries make the Jewish people feel like parasite and are seen as parasite as the other people. To counteract these feelings herself wanted to create a “Society of Jews” or a “Jewish Company” to be able to set up the country/nation for the Jewish people. He even says that if they created a state the governments of the countries that were filled with anti-Semitism will be more likely to help in obtaining sovereignty for us. His work on Leo Pinsker`s book, Autoemancipation, came to the same conclusion as Rome and Jerusalem by Hess. These ideas ended up as the First Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, where Herzl was elected as president of the congress. This was the first step to become a Jewish states and create it in
