Zionism

Zionism is a political movement and an ideology that supports a Jewish homeland in the Land of Israel, where the Jewish nation originated and where Jewish kingdoms and self-governing states existed at various times in history. While Zionism is based heavily upon religious tradition linking the Jewish people to the Land of Israel, the modern movement was originally secular, beginning largely as a response to ram ...

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Zionism: Encyclopedia II - Zionism - Zionism and Israel In 1947 Britain announced its intention to withdraw from Palestine, and on 29 November the United Nations General Assembly voted to partition Palestine into an Arab state and a Jewish state (with Jerusalem becoming an international enclave). Civil conflict between the Arabs and Jews in Palestine erupted immediately. On 14 May 1948 the leaders of the Jewish community in Palestine made a declaration of independence, and the state of Israel was established. This marked a major turning point in the Zionist movement, as its principal goal had now been accomplished. Many Zionist institutions were reshaped, and the three military movemen ...

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Zionism: Encyclopedia - Christian Zionism

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Zionism: Encyclopedia - Zionism and racism

Zionism maintains that the Jewish people constitute a nation and are entitled to a national homeland. Its focus is on governing the Land of Israel or Zion (a synecdoche for the Land of Israel). Jewish people have historically understood themselves to be part of a nation distinct from the non-Jewish nations. Like most nations, offspring of members are likewise considered members. However, common ancestry is not required and new members are admitted based upon prescribed criteria. None of the criteria incl ...

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Zionism: Encyclopedia - Yishuv

Yishuv is a Hebrew word meaning "settlement." It was used in the Zionist movement, before the establishment of Israel, to refer to the body of Jewish residents in Palestine. The residents and new settlers were referred to collectively as "the Yishuv." The term came into use in the 1880s, when there were about 25,000 Jews living in Palestine, and continued to be used until 1948, by which time there were about 700,000 Jews in Palestine. A distinction is sometimes drawn between the "Old Yishuv," referring to orthodox Jews (most of ...

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Zionism: Encyclopedia - Martin Buber

Martin Buber (8 February 1878 - 13 June 1965) was a Jewish philosopher, translator, editor, and pedagogue, whose work centered around the ideals of religious consciousness, interpersonal relations, and community. Buber's evocative, sometimes poetic writing style have marked the major themes in his work: the retelling of Hasidic tales, Biblical commentary, and metaphysical dialogue. A cultural Zionist, Buber was active in the Jewish and educational communities of Germany and Israel. His influence extends across the humanities, particul ...

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Zionism: Encyclopedia - Abraham Isaac Kook

Abraham Isaac Kook (1864 - 1935) a well-known proponent of Religious Zionism, was the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the British Mandate of Palestine, the founder of the Religious Zionist Yeshiva Merkaz Harav, and a renowned Torah scholar. He is known in Hebrew as הרב אברהם יצחק הכהן קוק HaRav Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook, and by the acronym HaRaAYaH. Abraham Isaac Kook was born in Griva, Latvia (a suburb of Daugavpils, then Imperial Russia) in 1865. His father was a student of the Volozhin yeshiva, the heart of mitnagdut, whereas his ma ...

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Zionism: Encyclopedia - Berl Katznelson

Berl Katznelson (1887 - 1944) was a Labor Zionism philosopher. He is regarded as one of the intellectual personalities behind the rise of modern Zionism which led to the establishsment of the modern State of Israel. Berl Katznelson - External link. Biography ...

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Zionism: Encyclopedia - Walter Rothschild 2nd Baron Rothschild

Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild (February 8, 1868 – August 27, 1937) was a British banker and zoologist from the international Rothschild financial dynasty. Walter Rothschild 2nd Baron Rothschild - Education and zoology. Educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, from 1889 to 1908 he worked for the family firm of NM Rothschild and Sons, in London, though his greatest passion was zoology, particularly the collecting and taxonomy of birds and butterflies. He participated in, and funded, expedi ...

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Zionism: New Age Spirituality Dictionary on Zionism

Zionism

A plan or movement of the Jewish people to return from the Diaspora to Palestine. Zionism originated aimed at the re-establishment of a Jewish national homeland and state in Palestine. It is now concerned with the development and support of Israel.

Zionism: Encyclopedia II - Anti-Zionism - Jewish anti-Zionism

Before the 1930s the majority of the world's Jews who were in a position to express an opinion could loosely be considered anti-Zionist, in the sense that they did not actively support the Zionist project for the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine or elsewhere. Nevertheless, the use of the expression "anti-Zionism" to describe their attitudes needs to be heavily qualified. In the 19th and early 20th century, for example, Reform Jews of Germany used the word "Zionism" to refer to a political and social movement which encouraged th ...

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