HIS 1111 Lecture 6: February 11th History 1945- Lecture Notes

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: History
• Course: HIS 1111
• Professor: Thomas Boogaart

Document Summary

Maccabee revolt: roman empire kicked the jews out and spread them throughout the mediterranean. The jewish diaspora: kept their identity/religion alive despite the diaspora, did much better in the arab world than in the christian world, arab world was much more tolerant, persecuted in the european christian world. Connection to historic homeland was very flimsy. Palestine as a province in various empires: arab, crusader, mamluk. Early 20th century arab society: not a very coherent society, many different groups. Unnatural in the age of nationalism for the jews to be a people without a land. Jews had an identity but were a stateless people: everywhere they were hated and persecuted. Locals would break shops, burn homes, kill, loot and rape. Theodore herzl was the first to develop this idea: tries to present this idea to various leaders, reaches the conclusion that the only logical homeland of the jews will be back in.