MMW 14 Chapter Notes - Chapter Article Notes: Hovevei Zion, Leon Pinsker, Auto-Emancipation

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 14
• Professor: Steven Dennis Cassedy

Document Summary

If they couldn"t get palestine, anywhere else would do: anti-semitism made it so that jews would always be a minority, pamphlet published in german anonymously, became leader of hibbat zion movement. Jews driven to nationalism because there was no other option for them. Auto-emancipation: an appeal to his people by a russian jew. Jews cannot be assimilated in any nation: need to have their own nation to be equal with the rest of the world, since this equality would be guaranteed through international law and treaties. Jews are a guest everywhere, never at home. In the diaspora, jews adopted the foreign elements of the nations that they presided in order to fit in. Jews do not feel a need for a national existence: this is why they have misfortune. Ii: after the jewish people lost their home, they began to wander around like ghosts, with no purpose, anti-semitism has become normalized for all people who interact with jews, almost hereditary.