'''Description:''' Jewish artist Lilien’s portrait of : '''"[[W:Theodor Herzl|Theodor Herzl]]-as-Moses".'''<br>::"Lilien’s move of casting Herzl as Moses makes a lot of sense. Moses is a fierce warrior, steadfast in his stance against his people’s every attempt to return to Egypt to assimilate. Moses is literally an iconoclast – he smashes the Golden Calf – and he strives his entire life for the one goal he can never attain: to enter the holy land. Like Moses, Herzl was steadfast in his view that his people must not assimilate, even to escape anti-Semitism, a view he came to embrace in college and later more strongly, during the Dreyfus Affair. Like Moses, Herzl died outside of Israel, weakened by pneumonia before he could see Israel arise as a state."<br> :::<small>(Menachem Wecker (The Jewish Press). ''"[http://www.jewishpress.com/sections/zionist-art-nouveau-ideal-or-idealistic/2006/02/15/0/?print Zionist Art Nouveau: Ideal Or Idealistic?]".'' February 15th, 2006.)</small>