HUMA 1860 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Chuppah, Halakha, Arab League
20 Dec 2019
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In the second half of the nineteenth century, european society was undergoing major changes that caused severe tensions: nationalism and racism added to the tensions leading up to the outbreak of the first world. War: anti-semitic views were promoted in various ways including at the first international anti- Semites congress held in 1882 in germany: the dreyfus affair. In france, a jewish army officer name alfred dreyfus (1859 1935) was falsely accused of spying for germany, based on forged documents and military cover-up: the russian context. Zionism: the pogrom and poverty in eastern europe and the growth of political and racial anti-semitism faced by the jews in western europe, triggered the development of the movement called zionism. Zionism sought to return jews to the ancient land of israel to establish a nation there: emerges during a colonist period, colonialist project but also anti-colonialist wars of national independence.
