HIST 151 Lecture : [Script of Lec_9] Zionism.docx
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One has to understand modern political zionism as one of the several nationalists movements that emerged in europe during the 19th century. This is, in an important sense, a secular movement given that proponents of this modern political zionism. They reject both assimilation into a broader european culture: but they also, at the same time, reject an entirely faith based culture. So we find them straddling some very interesting positions. This contradiction was particularly glaring in eastern europe, as. Jews they"re faced wide spread and repeated violent prosecutions. The four most impetus, though, to the jewish emancipation, movements for. We see emancipation following, that which happens in france, in : great britain in 1858, switzerland in 1866, austria in 1867, italy in 1870, and then in germany in 1871. However, we mentioned eastern europe before, emancipation of the. Jews of russia would not emerge until as late as 1915.