Encyclopedia - Zionism: Encyclopedia - Zionism
Zionism is a political movement and an ideology that supports a Jewish homeland in the Land of Israel, where the Jewish nation originated...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 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 parti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zionism: Encyclopedia Ii - Zionism - Zionism And The Arab Muslims
Much of Arab Muslim society rejects the notion that Jews, as a historically subjugated minority, could be integrated into Muslim society ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mayer Amschel Rothschild Family: Encyclopedia Ii - Mayer Amschel Rothschild Family - Zionism
The Rothschilds were supporters of the State of Israel, and Baron Edmond James de Rothschild was a patron of the first settlement in Pale...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zionism: Encyclopedia Ii - Zionism - Establishment Of The Zionist Movement
Land of Israel Districts · Cities · Transportation Dead Sea · Red Sea · Sea of Galilee Mediterranean · Negev · Judea · Samaria Jer...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-zionism: Encyclopedia - Anti-zionism
Anti-Zionism is a term used to describe several different political and religious points of view. Anti-Zionist positions have in common s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Christian Zionism: Encyclopedia - Christian Zionism
History of Christianity Jesus of Nazareth The Apostles Ecumenical councils Great Schism The Crusades Reformation The Trinity God the Fath...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zionism And Racism: 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 ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yishuv: 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 bo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Martin Buber: Encyclopedia - Martin Buber
Martin Buber (8 February 1878 - 13 June 1965) was a Jewish philosopher, translator, editor, and pedagogue, whose work centered around the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Isaac Kook: 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 ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Berl Katznelson: 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...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Walter Rothschild 2nd Baron Rothschild: 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 interna...   » Read the article

Dictionary - 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-establish...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-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, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-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, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-zionism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-zionism - Types Of Anti-zionism
Political Zionism has encountered opposition ever since it was first articulated in the 19th century. It is therefore possible to speak o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-zionism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-zionism - Types Of Anti-zionism
Political Zionism has encountered opposition ever since it was first articulated in the 19th century. It is therefore possible to speak o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-zionism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-zionism - Defining Anti-zionism
Anti-Zionism is often characterized by opposition to the existence of the State of Israel as a Jewish state. Opposition to the policies o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-zionism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-zionism - Soviet Anti-zionism
Soviet Union supported establishment of the state of Israel in 1947. At that time Bolshevik idea of World Revolution was abandoned by Jos...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-zionism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-zionism - Defining Anti-zionism
Anti-Zionism is often characterized by opposition to the existence of the State of Israel as a Jewish state, for instance those who advoc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-zionism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-zionism - Islamist Anti-zionism
Islamist narratives, originally more popular among the more conservative nations of Arabia itself but now fairly widespread, emphasize th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-zionism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-zionism - International Anti-zionism
In parallel with the rise of anti-Zionist sentiment in the west was increased hostility towards Israel at the international level. During...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-zionism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-zionism - Western Anti-zionism
Before the 1970s, serious criticism of Israel, let alone opposition to its existence, was almost unknown in the western countries, except...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-zionism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-zionism - Defining Anti-zionism
Anti-Zionism is often characterized by opposition to the existence of the State of Israel as a Jewish state. Opposition to the policies o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-zionism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-zionism - Arab Anti-zionism
At the time when the Zionist settlement of Palestine began, most of the Arab world was under the control either of the Ottoman Empire or ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-zionism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-zionism - Soviet Anti-zionism
In the Soviet Union from the 1920s Zionism was viewed as a form of "bourgeois nationalism," and its active promotion among Jews was banne...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-zionism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-zionism - Islamist Anti-zionism
Islamist narratives, originally more popular among the more conservative nations of Arabia itself but now fairly widespread, emphasize th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-zionism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-zionism - Types Of Anti-zionism
Political Zionism has encountered opposition ever since it was first articulated in the 19th century. It is therefore possible to speak o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-zionism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-zionism - Western Anti-zionism
Before the 1970s, serious criticism of Israel, let alone opposition to its existence, was almost unknown in the western countries, except...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Christian Zionism: Encyclopedia Ii - Christian Zionism - Newspaper Exegesis
With the Jewish settlement of Palestine thereafter, and the establishment of a modern Jewish state on May 14, 1948, dispensationalism (al...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-zionism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-zionism - International Anti-zionism
In parallel with the rise of anti-Zionist sentiment in the west was increased hostility towards Israel at the international level. During...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-zionism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-zionism - Arab Anti-zionism
At the time when the Zionist settlement of Palestine began, most of the Arab world was under the control either of the Ottoman Empire or ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-zionism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-zionism - Anti-zionism And Anti-semitism
Some commentators believe that criticisms of Israel and Zionism are often disproportionate in degree and unique in kind, and attribute th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-zionism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-zionism - Socialist Bolshevik Anti-zionism
Among other world firsts, Bolsheviks should be credited with the world first massive Anti-Zionist act. Immediately after October Revoluti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-zionism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-zionism - Anti-zionism And Anti-semitism
Many commentators believe that criticisms of Israel and Zionism are often disproportionate in degree and unique in kind, and attribute th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Revisionist Zionism: Encyclopedia Ii - Revisionist Zionism - Revisionist Zionism: Ideology
Ideologically, Revisionism advocated the creation of a Jewish state on both sides of the Jordan River, that is, a state which would inclu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zionism And Racism: Encyclopedia Ii - Zionism And Racism - History
Zionism and racism - The demographic change. Despite the history of violence against the Jews, there is no evidence of any interruption...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Revisionist Zionism: Encyclopedia Ii - Revisionist Zionism - Jabotinsky And Revisionist Zionism
After World War I, Jabotinsky was elected to the first legislative assembly in the Yishuv, and in 1921 he was elected to the Executive Co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Christian Zionism: Encyclopedia Ii - Christian Zionism - Recent Theological Development
Christian Zionism is a name applied to the political implications of a theological belief. Most people and groups who are called Christia...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Revisionist Zionism: Encyclopedia Ii - Revisionist Zionism - Criticism
On December 4, 1948, the New York Times published a letter to the editor signed by over two dozen prominent Jews condemning Menachem Begi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zionism Southern African Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Zionism Southern African Religion - Origins
Zionist beliefs grew out of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth religious missions to southern Africa. In particular the churches owe the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zionism And Racism: Encyclopedia Ii - Zionism And Racism - Soviet Influence
Political Zionism was officially stamped out for the entire history of the Soviet Union as a form of bourgeois nationalism. As early as 1...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Palestinophilia: Encyclopedia Ii - Palestinophilia - Palestinophilia As A Precursor Of Zionism
Martin Perez quotes Derek Penslar's expression "an inchoate Palestinophilia" to describe the relation between early efforts by Alliance I...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Revisionist Zionism: Encyclopedia Ii - Revisionist Zionism - Lehi: Origin And Activities
The national-messianist movement, called Lehi and nicknamed the "Stern Gang" by the British, was led by Avraham "Yair" Stern. Lehi was fo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Joel Teitelbaum: Encyclopedia Ii - Joel Teitelbaum - Opposition To Modern Zionism
Rabbi Teitelbaum was renowned for his vocal religiously motivated opposition to all modern forms Zionism in all arenas. This approach was...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Theodor Herzl: Encyclopedia Ii - Theodor Herzl - Becomes Leader Of The Zionists
From April, 1896, when the English translation of his Der Judenstaat ("The Jewish State") appeared, his career and reputation changed. He...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Revisionist Zionism: Encyclopedia Ii - Revisionist Zionism - Irgun: Origin And Activities
The Irgun was derived from the Betar youth movement, which had by the 1940s transplanted many of its members from Europe and the United S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zionism And Racism: Encyclopedia Ii - Zionism And Racism - Un Resolution 3379
Main article: United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379 The Soviet Union began the "Zionism is racism" campaign in the United Natio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zionism And Racism: Encyclopedia Ii - Zionism And Racism - Viewed As Anti-semitism
According to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, Jews were at one time the "Chosen people" of God; in Judaism, this is still believed to be...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-semitism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-semitism - Anti-semitism And Anti-zionism
Anti-Zionism is a term that has been used to describe several very different political and religious points of view (both historically an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Soviet Union And The Arab-israeli Conflict: Encyclopedia Ii - Soviet Union And The Arab-israeli Conflict - Marxism-leninism And Zionism
Political Zionism was officially stamped out for the entire history of the Soviet Union as a form of bourgeois nationalism. Although Leni...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Religious Zionist Movement: Encyclopedia Ii - Religious Zionist Movement - Religious Zionism Today
Religious Zionists are often called "Kippot Sruggot" because of the knitted skull caps that they wear. In Israel, different factions of O...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-semitism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-semitism - Anti-semitism And Anti-zionism
Anti-Zionism is a term that has been used to describe several very different political and religious points of view (both historically an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Martin Buber: Encyclopedia Ii - Martin Buber - Life
Martin (Hebrew name: Mordechai) Buber was born on February 8, 1878 in Vienna into a Jewish family. His grandfather, Salomon Buber, in who...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Theodor Herzl: Encyclopedia Ii - Theodor Herzl - Judenstaat And Altneuland
Whereas his first brochure and his first congress address lacked all religious thought, and his famous remark that the return to Zion wou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Christian Right: Encyclopedia Ii - Christian Right - U.s. Foreign Policy And Christian Zionism
Many in the Christian Right refer to apocalyptic and other Biblical prophecy in their support of Israel, and support of Israel is often s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Religious Zionist Movement: Encyclopedia Ii - Religious Zionist Movement - Ideology
Land of Israel Districts · Cities · Transportation Dead Sea · Red Sea · Sea of Galilee Mediterranean · Negev · Judea · Samaria Jer...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Christian Right: Encyclopedia Ii - Christian Right - U.s. Foreign Policy And Christian Zionism
Many in the Christian Right refer to apocalyptic and other Biblical prophecy in their support of Israel, and support of Israel is often s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-defamation League: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-defamation League - Fighting Anti-zionism
The ADL holds that a modern and common form of anti-Semitism is the statement that Jews claim that all criticism of the State of Israel i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Palestinophilia: Encyclopedia Ii - Palestinophilia - Palestinophilia After The Establishment Of Israel
After the modern State of Israel was born, the Palestinian Jews began identifying themselves as Israelis. After the 1967 Six Day War the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish State: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish State - Jewish State Or A State Of Jews?
There has been growing debate in Israel on the character of the state, if it should enshrine more Jewish culture, encourage Judaism in sc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Isaac Kook: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham Isaac Kook - Legacy
Abraham Isaac Kook - Relationship with Religious Zionism. Ironically, while Rav Kook has been exalted as one of the most important thin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Messianism: Encyclopedia Ii - Messianism - Christianity
Christian messianism is based upon the necessity of a human blood sacrifice, to atone for the sins of the world. The Christian interpreta...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Soviet Union And The Arab-israeli Conflict: Encyclopedia Ii - Soviet Union And The Arab-israeli Conflict - Effects Of The Cold War
By the end of 1948 the USSR switched sides in the Arab-Israeli conflict and throughout the course of the Cold War unequivocally supported...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Isaac Kook: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham Isaac Kook - Biography
Abraham Isaac Kook was born in Griva, Latvia (a suburb of Daugavpils, then Imperial Russia) in 1865. His father was a student of the Volo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Waldemar Haffkine: Encyclopedia Ii - Waldemar Haffkine - Early Years
Born Vladimir Aaronovich Havkin (Russian language: Владимир Ааронович Хавкин), the fourth of five children in a fa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Religious Zionist Movement: Encyclopedia Ii - Religious Zionist Movement - History And Organizations
The first Rabbis who supported Zionism were Rabbi Yehuda Shlomo Alkalai and Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Kalischer. They argued that the change in th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Waldemar Haffkine: Encyclopedia Ii - Waldemar Haffkine - Little Dreyfus Affair
In 1902, nineteen Punjabi villagers (inoculated from the same bottle of vaccine) died of tetanus. An inquiry commission indicted Haffkine...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Joseph Soloveitchik: Encyclopedia Ii - Joseph Soloveitchik - Other Views And Controversy
He thus became a "lightning rod" of criticism from two directions: From the religious left he was viewed as being too connected to the Ol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Joel Teitelbaum: Encyclopedia Ii - Joel Teitelbaum - Love For Fellow
Rabbi Teitelbaum was known to be a great lover of all people, particularly his fellow Jew. Once, he was traveling to the Holy Land on a s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Waldemar Haffkine: Encyclopedia Ii - Waldemar Haffkine - Anti-cholera Vaccine
At the time, one of the five great cholera pandemics of the 19th century ravaged Asia and Europe. Even though Robert Koch discovered Vibr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Waldemar Haffkine: Encyclopedia Ii - Waldemar Haffkine - Anti-plague Vaccine
In October 1896, an epidemic of bubonic plague struck Bombay and the government asked Haffkine to help. He embarked upon the development ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New Anti-semitism: Encyclopedia Ii - New Anti-semitism - The Nature Of The New Anti-semitism
The charge of new anti-Semitism is primarily applied to groups on the Left, and is described as drawing its vocabulary and arguments from...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish State: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish State - Criticism
The idea of Israel being a Jewish State has drawn much controversy because of the large number of Muslim and Christian Palestinians resid...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Joseph Soloveitchik: Encyclopedia Ii - Joseph Soloveitchik - Family And Last Years
His children married prominent academics and Talmudic scholars: his daughter Tovah married Rabbi Dr. Aharon Lichtenstein, Rosh Yeshiva of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Joseph Soloveitchik: Encyclopedia Ii - Joseph Soloveitchik - Family And Last Years
His children married prominent academics and Talmudic scholars: his daughter Tovah married Rabbi Dr. Aharon Lichtenstein, Rosh Yeshiva of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zionist Youth Movement: Encyclopedia Ii - Zionist Youth Movement - List Of Modern Movements
Zionist youth movement - International movements. Betar: 1923–ongoing. Associated with Revisionist Zionist movement and Likud party....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gush Katif: Encyclopedia Ii - Gush Katif - Demography
Gush Katif had about 8000 residents, most of them religious Orthodox Jews (see: Religious Zionism and Mafdal) and the rest non-religious ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Joseph Soloveitchik: Encyclopedia Ii - Joseph Soloveitchik - Early Years Education And Immigration
He was educated in the traditional manner at a Talmud Torah, an elementary yeshiva, and by private tutors, as his parents realized his gr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Joseph Soloveitchik: Encyclopedia Ii - Joseph Soloveitchik - Philosophy And Major Works
Joseph Soloveitchik - Torah Umadda synthesis. During his tenure at Yeshiva University in addition to his Talmudic lectures, he deepened...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Soviet Union And The Arab-israeli Conflict: Encyclopedia Ii - Soviet Union And The Arab-israeli Conflict - Post Cold War
The Russian Federation is one of the members of the Quartet on the Middle East. With relations warming up between new Russia, on one hand...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New Anti-semitism: Encyclopedia Ii - New Anti-semitism - State Of The Controversy
New anti-Semitism - Opponents. Opponents of the concept of New anti-Semitism assert that: Antipathy toward Israel's policies, its char...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dominionism: Encyclopedia Ii - Dominionism - Generic Dominionism
Within the Christian Right, concern over social, cultural, and political issues such as abortion, euthanasia, gay marriage, sympathy for ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Norman Lamm: Encyclopedia Ii - Norman Lamm - Theology
As an Orthodox Jew, Rabbi Lamm's theology is based on the corpus of classical rabbinic Jewish principles of faith. While not demanding th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tu Bishvat: Encyclopedia Ii - Tu Bishvat - Trees In The Jewish Sources
Trees have been viewed both as an existential value and a symbol since the Jewish tribes approached the Land of Israel: "When you shall c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Goldfaden: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham Goldfaden - Youth And Early Manhood
Goldfaden was born in Starokonstantinov. His birthdate is sometimes given as July 12, following the "Old Style" calendar in use at that t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stefan Zweig: Encyclopedia Ii - Stefan Zweig - Bibliography
Novels and short stories include: Buchmendel (1929) Beware of Pity Confusion: The Private Papers of Privy Councillor R. Von D Twenty-Fou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-defamation League: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-defamation League - Other Positions
On September 23, 2003 the ADL awarded Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi the ADL's distinguished statesman award [3]. This in spite...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stefan Zweig: Encyclopedia Ii - Stefan Zweig - Life And Work
Zweig was an extremely well-known writer in the 1930s and 1940s. Since his death in 1942 his work has become less known. Zweig wrote nove...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-defamation League: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-defamation League - History
Founded in October, 1913 by Sigmund Livingston, the ADL's charter stated "The immediate object of the League is to stop, by appeals to re...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-defamation League: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-defamation League - Criticism Of Reporting On Pagan Symbols
The ADL publishes lists of symbols used by anti-semitic groups. [14] Included in these publications are several pagan symbols that were u...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Anti-zionism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-zionism - Anti-zionism Dictionary Definitions
In addition to a conventional definition of anti-Semitism ("hostility toward Jews as a religious or racial minority group, often accompan...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Anti-zionism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-zionism - Anti-zionism Dictionary Definitions
In addition to a conventional definition of anti-Semitism ("hostility toward Jews as a religious or racial minority group, often accompan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zionism: Encyclopedia Ii - Zionism - Anti-zionism And Post-zionism
More than 50 years after the founding of the State of Israel, and after more than 80 years of Arab-Jewish conflict over Israel, the West ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zionism: Encyclopedia Ii - Zionism - Jewish Reaction To Zionism
Support for the Zionist movement was not initially a mainstream position in the world Jewish community, and it was actively opposed by ma...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zionism: Encyclopedia Ii - Zionism - Non-jewish Zionism
Many non-Jews support the State of Israel, and some of these may choose to define themselves as Zionists. Non-Jewish support for Zionism ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zionism: Encyclopedia Ii - Zionism - Relevant Articles
Zionism - Types of Zionism. General Zionism Labour Zionism Religious Zionism Revisionist Zionism Christian Zionism Zionism - Zionist...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zionism: Encyclopedia Ii - Zionism - Zionist Initiatives
While Zionism is based heavily upon religious tradition linking the Jewish people to the Land of Israel, the modern movement was original...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zionism: Encyclopedia Ii - Zionism - The Struggle For Palestine
With the defeat and dismantlement of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, and the establishment of the British Mandate over Palestine by the Leagu...   » Read the article