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Der Judenstaat (German, The Jewish State) is a book written by Theodor Herzl and published in 1896 in Berlin and Vienna by M. Breitenstein's Verlags-Buchhandlung.
It is considered to be one of the most important texts of early Zionism. As expressed in this book, Herzl envisioned the founding of a future independent Jewish state during the twentieth century. He argued that the best way of avoiding anti-Semitism in Europe was to create this independent Jewish state in the region of Palestine. Herzl is credited for coining the political term "Zionism", having named the political movement after Mount Zion in Jerusalem, a symbol of the Jewish homeland in Palestine since the Babylonian captivity in the 6th century BCE. The movement culminated in the birth of the State of Israel in 1948, though Zionism continues to be connected with political support of the State of Israel.
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