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Origins of Zionism. Background, Sources, Responses. Western Europe. Modernism=> Secularization-Nationalism-Democracy Emancipation for Jews => Enlightenment, integration => Polarization versus ethnicity 1979 Political Antisemitism. Eastern Europe. Initial modernization only=>
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Origins of Zionism Background, Sources, Responses
Western Europe • Modernism=> • Secularization-Nationalism-Democracy • Emancipation for Jews => • Enlightenment, integration => Polarization versus ethnicity • 1979 Political Antisemitism
Eastern Europe • Initial modernization only=> • Jews - Demographic-Economic Pressure (Pale of Settlement) • =>Emigration + Productivization • Secular-Hebrew Enlightenment • Social political radicalization • 1881 Pogroms
Mutual influences + Links between East and West • Solidarity facing Immigration • Awareness of Problems in Emancipation • Solidarity beyond Religion • Facing Antisemitism
New Response: Modern Jewish Nationalism • Political platforms for the Diaspora: • "Auto-Emancipation" Bund Territorialism Autonomism
National Migration plans • Settlement endeavors • Baron Rothchild • Jewish Colonization Association (JCA)
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)
The establishment of the World Zionist Organization • Theodor (Benjamin Ze’ev) Herzl • The First Zionist Congress 1897