JEwish mythology
One of the most important influences in the movement that led to the creation of the state of Israel was Jewish writer and journalist Theodor Herzl. He was born on May 2, 1860 in Budapest, Hungary. Herzl studied law in Vienna, but later on went into a literary career. This proved a good decision, as he became a well-known playwright and essayist and in 1891, Hertzl was appointed Paris correspondent for the Vienna Neue Freie Presse (New Free Press). During the Alfred Dreyfus affair in 1894, anti-Semitic feelings in France spread greatly. This greatly affected Hertzl because before that he believed that the best solution of anti-Semitism in Europe was the assimilation of the Jews with the Christian people. After the court-martial of Dreyfus, Hertzl was certain that the only way anti-Semitism could be solved was with the creation of a Jewish state. In 1896, Theodor Hertzl published a short book, Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State), which promoted the establishment of a Jewish State. Although Hertzl was not the first to suggest a Jewish State, he was the first to call fo
Jabotinsky promoted a Jewish state on both sides of the Jordan River and devoted his time to set up the mass evacuation of European Jews to Palestine. The congress founded a permanent World Zionist Organization that was to establish branches in every country with a substantial Jewish population. After the wealthy leaders rejected Hertzl, he called for a Zionist Congress in 1897, which met in Basel, Switzerland. Nearly two hundred delegates attended the congress. Also, the leader of American Zionism, Judge Louis Brandeis, and Dr. The New Zionist party was formed in nineteen thirty-five when a revisionist group led by Ze-ev Vladimir Jabotinsky split from the Zionist movement. Relations between the Arabs of Palestine and Jews immigrating there during the nineteen twenties were not very good and became an intractable problem. The Palestinians did not like the Jews overtaking their land so they rebelled and fought the Jews. Zionism had achieved its goal of having a homeland for the Jews in the Middle East. Even though some wealthy leaders, such as German emperor William II and Sultan Abd al-Hamid II of Turkey, were sympathetic towards the idea of a Jewish homeland, they were not willing to put up the money to back such a project. The Zionist movement worked very hard in the 20th century to see a Jewish homeland come true. The British offered to help start Jewish colonization in East Africa in Uganda, but this nearly split the Zionist movement in two because most Zionists were in support of having a Jewish homeland in Israel. Most of these new immigrants were refugees from Nazi persecution in Europe. On May 14, 1948, at midnight, the Jewish state of Israel was born.
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