This is the first class, from 1840 until 1915. We dicussed how Zionism in embebed in our Tora; how the reform movement in 1840 tried to formulated a Mosaic religion withiut a state. 1860-1880 antisemitism pushing Jews to Erets Israel. The numer of Jews in Israel by 1905. The first colonies. 1905-1914 Israel under Ottoman Empire. First World War
MAIN POINTS OF DISCUSSION
We are a Nation. Not a religion! What is the difference?
The Reform Movement: Religion without a State.
Secular Zionism: State without Religion.
TORA: Both are completely integrated. Ribbi Yehuda Bibas.
TESHUBA: Debarim 30. “Collective Return of the People of Israel to God’s Land. Return to Israel is returning to God.
THE JEWISH POPULATION IN ISRAEL FROM 1880
Before 1880: less than 25,000 Jews lived in the land of Israel.
Between 1880 and 1914: tens of thousands of Jews came from Europe escaping persecutions.
Rabbi Isaac HaCohen Kook (1865-1935): the power of anti-Semitism.
Sir Moshe Montefiore (1784 -1885) and the Baron of Rothschild (1845 – 1934): Building colonies and creating jobs.
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1858-1922): The miraculous revival of the Hebrew language
1904 a huge wave of Jewish immigration to US. Over 2 million Jews immigrated to the United States,1.5 million of them to New York in 20 years. No support for a Jewish State. Not internal, not external.
FIRST WORLD WAR
What happened on July 28, 1914?
1916: Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith and Prime Minister David Lloyd George.
The difference between Catholic and Protestant attitudes to Jews
Arthur Balfour (1848-1930)
Hayim Weizmann (1874-1952)
On April 23, 1920, San Remo, The League of Nations
