Origins of Zionism

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Origins of Zionism

• Background, Sources, Responses

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Western Europe

• Modernismgt
• Secularization-Nationalism-Democracy
• Emancipation for Jews gt
• Enlightenment, integration gt
• Polarization versus ethnicity
• 1979 Political Antisemitism

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Eastern Europe

• Initial modernization onlygt
• Jews - Demographic-Economic Pressure (Pale of
  Settlement)
• gtEmigration Productivization
• Secular-Hebrew Enlightenment
• Social political radicalization
• 1881 Pogroms

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Mutual influences Links between East and West

• Solidarity facing Immigration
• Awareness of Problems in Emancipation
• Solidarity beyond Religion
• Facing Antisemitism

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New Response Modern Jewish Nationalism

• Political platforms for the Diaspora
• "Auto-Emancipation"
• Bund
• Territorialism
• Autonomism

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National Migration plans

• Settlement endeavors
• Baron Rothchild
• Jewish Colonization Association (JCA)

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Transforming links to Eretz Israel

• Modernization in the Old Yishuv
• Messianism Realistic goals
• Secularization of Religious Link
• Fore-Runners of Zionism Hess, Kalischer, Alkalai
• Lovers of Zion
• First Second Aliyah (1882-1914)

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The establishment of the World Zionist
Organization

• Theodor (Benjamin Zeev) Herzl
• The First Zionist Congress 1897

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