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BILU Manifesto
BILU (Or Hovevei Zion)
"The aim of Zionism is to create for the Jewish people a home in Palestine secured by public law."
What is the Basel Declaration?
This stream of Zionism focused on using diplomacy to establish a safe haven for the Jews, either in Palestine or elsewhere
What is Practical Zionism?
Non-Muslims living under Muslim rule
What are Dhimmis?
The framing and imprisonment of this man prompted Herzl to begin his quest for an organized Zionist movement
Who was Alfred Dreyfus?
Auto-Emancipation
Who is Leon Pinsker?
"To the living the Jew is a corpse, to the native a foreigner, to the homesteader a vagrant, to the proprietary a beggar, to the poor an exploiter and a millionaire, to the patriot a man without a country, for all a hated rival."
What is Auto-Emancipation?
These two Jewish groups both initially opposed the Zionist movement, but for different reasons
What are Orthodox and Reform/secular Jews?
The term for Arab peasants who lived in Palestine, usually on land they did not own
What are fellahin?
Pinsker often used this term instead of antisemitism
What is Judeophobia?
Der Judenstaat
Theodor Herzl
"The Governments of all countries scourged by Anti-Semitism will be keenly interested in assisting us to obtain the sovereignty we want."
What is Der Judenstaat?
Herzl is primarily identified with this stream of Zionism.
What is Political Zionism?
This event in Russia precipitated a wave of government-sanctioned pogroms that kickstarted the first aliyah
Both of these authors argued that antisemitism was permanent and would never be eradicated
Who were Herzl and Pinsker?
Exodus (the novel)
Leon Uris
"What hast thou been doing until 1882? Sleeping, and dreaming the false dream of Assimilation."
What is the BILU Manifesto?
This stream of Zionism espoused socialist ideas in its quest to settle the land of Israel by building small communities and having Jews themselves working the land.
What is Labor Zionism?
Besides Muslim, 19th Century Palestinian Arabs predominantly belonged to one of these other two religions
What are Christian and Druze?
The term for government-sanctioned outbreaks of violence against Jewish people, typically in Eastern Europe
What is a pogrom?
Basel Declaration
1st Zionist Congress
"The belief in a Messiah, in the intervention of a higher power to bring about our political resurrection, and the religious assumption that we must bear patiently divine punishment, caused us to abandon every thought of our national liberation, unity and independence. Consequently, we have renounced the idea of a nationhood."
What is Auto-Emancipation?
This loosely organized group settled the land mainly with the help of wealthy benefactors such as Rothschild.
What is Hovevei Zion?
Three of the four holy cities which housed most of the Jewish population in Palestine in the 19th century
What are Tiberias, Safed (Tzfat), Jerusalem, and Hebron?
This term refers to a common antisemitic belief that Jews cannot be fully trusted, nor integrated into larger society
What is the Jewish Question/Jewish Problem?