sentences:  He was elected president of the Congress (a position he held until his death in 1904), and in 1898 he began a series of diplomatic initiatives to build support for a Jewish country.He was received by Wilhelm II on several occasions, one of them in Jerusalem, and attended the Hague Peace Conference, enjoying a warm reception from many statesmen there.His work on Autoemancipation was pre-figured by a similar conclusion drawn by Marx's friend Moses Hess, in "Rome and Jerusalem" (1862).