> according to amos elon,[16] as a young man, herzl was an ardent germanophile who saw the germans as the best kulturvolk (cultured people) in central europe and embraced the german ideal of bildung, whereby reading great works of literature by goethe and shakespeare could allow one to appreciate the beautiful things in life and thus become a morally better person (the bildung theory tended to equate beauty with goodness).[17] herzl believed that through bildung hungarian jews such as himself could shake off their "shameful jewish characteristics" caused by long centuries of impoverishment and oppression, and become civilized central europeans, a true kulturvolk along the german lines.[17]
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