Timbre à l'effigie de Theodor Herzl

Cf. 98.24.008, Promotion pour le timbre Theodor Herzl du fond national juif (Keren Kayemet le-Israel] ou KKL). La photographie utilisée pour ce montage fut prise par E.M. Lilien, à l'hôtel des Trois Rois, à Bâle en 1901, lors du Congrès sioniste. On aperçoit la ville de Jérusalem et la tour de David.
"One of the most reproduced pictures of Herzl was a photograph taken by E.M. Lilien. It shows Herzl leaning over the balcony of his hotel room in Basel.... After his death, this image was super-imposed on a Jerusalem scene, with Herzl looking toward the Tower of David rising above the walls of the Old City as a team of Jewish pioneers march to work in the valley between Herzl and the walls. This variation was used for pictures and JNF stamps, which along with photographs from Herzl's journey to Palestine in 1898, helped associate him with the Jewish national landscape of Eretz Israel" (cf photocopies dossier). "This messianic or ptophetic perception of Herzl, especially in the Congress postcards, was often merged with the twin images of the old, pious East European type of Jews and the muscular pioneer farmers in a Europeanized Palestine landscape" (ibid, p.25)