HISTORY 244 Lecture 2: Lecture Two
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Outline: a tale of two nationalisms - zionism. Jews began to face jerusalem and pray for a return: zion the biblical name for jerusalem, children of israel a sense of community, which was the foundation to this modern nationalism. In short, zionism was a departure from, rather than an extension of, traditional. It responded to the deteriorating jewish condition in. Europe: most jews lived in eastern europe, constantly despised and marginalized. Imperial ideal began to yield to exclusive national ideal. J: jewish taxes funded arab schools and roads, also psychological costs, such as jews making arabs leave to make way for jews, jews displaced arabs in an arab land (they did pay for it, though) Jewish capital led to higher arab quality of living. Shifting attitudes in the late 1930s: most were socialists, but right wing revisionist zionists led by vladimir. Jewry would be decimated they needed a separate state.
