Theodor Herzl and the birth of political Zionism발음듣기
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Theodor Herzl and the birth of political Zionism
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In order to understand the desire by Jewish people in the late 1800s and early 1900s for a Jewish homeland, we have to go back roughly 17 or 1800 years to the year 135 in the Common Era.발음듣기
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It's the location of Jerusalem. In 135 of the Common Era the Roman emperor, Hadrian, is able to suppress a rebellion by the Jews in Judea and after suppressing that rebellion, he expels the Jews from Judea. Hadrian expels the Jews from Judea. Not only did he expel them from Judea, but he actually renamed the province.발음듣기
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He renames it Syria Palaestina, which is essentially why for the next 1700 years or so and even parts of it today are referred to as Palestine.발음듣기
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They have settled in groups in Europe, in the Middle East, in Africa. There were even groups of Jews who had settled in India.발음듣기
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For the most part they thrived in their various communities, but unfortunately their history had a fairly large amount of persecution, of discrimination, of kind of using them as a scapegoat.발음듣기
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This was particularly the case in Europe where you have the Christian church often kind of blamed the Jews on religious grounds.발음듣기
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They were an easy scapegoat any time things went hard. You had ethnic cleansing. You had pogroms.발음듣기
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This was the Russian empire, especially as we get into the 1800s, was especially infamous in its treatment of the Jews.발음듣기
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In fact, much of Jewish tradition today is around remembrances of these various tragedies, these various persecutions.발음듣기
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As he grows and he becomes a journalist, he is able to observe the anti-Semitism, especially that's occurring especially in the late 1800s in Russia, but throughout much of Europe.발음듣기
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In 1894, so at this point he's 34 years old, still a fairly young man, in 1894 in Paris he directly observes the Dreyfus affair.발음듣기
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The Dreyfus affair, in which a French Jewish officer in the military is accused of treason, accused of spying for the Germans.발음듣기
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This leads to all sorts of kind of public anti-Semitism. It later is shown that it was false claims on Dreyfus. Some people would debate whether this directly led to Theodor Herzl's articulation of a need for a Jewish homeland, but it was something that he directly observed, so it must have influenced him in some way.발음듣기
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It was this and all the other anti-Semitism that he observed either directly or indirectly his entire life, or even that he was able to read in the history books.발음듣기
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Taking all of that in, and this is coming from a fairly secular individual, in 1896 at the age of 36, he writes Der Judenstaat, which literally translates as the Jewish State.발음듣기
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Der Judenstaat. This was a very articulate description or desire, or articulation I guess I should say, of the need for a Jewish homeland and a Jewish State.발음듣기
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Mount Zion is essentially a hill in modern-day Jerusalem, but the word Zion is often equated with Jerusalem, with the Holy Land, with kind of the home of the Jews.발음듣기
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I stress the modifier "political," political Zionism, because there was already a movement to bring the Jewish people back to their ancient homeland in Judea, which could be referred to as Zionism.발음듣기
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It was really Herzl who articulated a need to set up a political state and start to organize around trying to create a political state.발음듣기
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We have sincerely tried everywhere to merge with the national communities in which we live, seeking only to preserve the faith of our fathers."발음듣기
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In vain do we strive to enhance the fame of our native lands in the arts and sciences, or her wealth by trade and commerce.발음듣기
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In our native lands, where we have lived for centuries, we are still decried as aliens often by men whose ancestors had not yet come at a time when Jewish sighs had long been heard in the country.발음듣기
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This ends up getting huge traction, resonates with the Jewish diaspora, gives him the power to essentially, the next year, organize in 1897 the first Zionist Congress, first Zionist Congress where he's able to bring together likeminded, or at least people who are looking to organize a way to eventually establish a Jewish State, preferably in Palestine."발음듣기
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I say preferably in Palestine, and it's clear that this was the first choice, to go back to the historical homeland of Judea, but even Herzl himself had considered Argentina, which at the time was very open-minded, very open towards immigration.발음듣기
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In fact, the British offered Uganda in 1903 to the what would later be called the Zionist Organization. It was considered and I believe it was the sixth Zionist Congress.발음듣기
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But Palestine was always, because of historical reasons, the hopeful home of the Zionist Movement.발음듣기
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I fully realize this is an incredibly touchy issue regardless of where people stand on their views of Zionism or of Theodor Herzl.발음듣기
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Some would view him as a visionary, view him as a hero, some would view him as starting the seed that led to the eventual occupation of Palastine and the settlements that are going on there.발음듣기
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Regardless of where you are in that argument, it's pretty amazing how much foresight he actually had and his ability to get this thing going.발음듣기
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Even from the get-go, he had some conversations with the Ottomans and other folks about being able to get land in Palestine and all the rest.발음듣기
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But even after that first Zionist Congress, which was held in Basel, he understood what he was doing and he was looking beyond his own lifetime.발음듣기
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This is a quote here from his journal and it's pretty telling. "Were I to sum up the Basel Congress in a word, which I shall guard against pronouncing publically, it would be this:At Basel I founded the Jewish State. If I said this out loud today I would be greeted by universal laughter.발음듣기
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In five years perhaps, and certainly in 50 years, everyone will perceive it." This is an amazing impresison because the state of Israel would come into a reality in roughly 50 years.발음듣기
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With that said, and once again I know this is an incredibly touchy issue, the one thing that is probably surprising to many people is that he was not an extreme individual.발음듣기
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It comes out from some of his other writing that even though he wanted this Jewish State, he was a fairly tolerant individual and he did not view this only for the Jews and he didn't feel that it should be taken by force or in any other way.발음듣기
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This is from his diary. "It goes without saying that we shall respectfully tolerate persons of other faiths and protect their property, their honor and their freedom with the harshest means of coercion."발음듣기
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So protect their property, honor and ... using the harshest means of coercion to protect their property, their honor and their freedom.발음듣기
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Should there be many such immovable owners in individual areas who will not sell their property to us. So, hey, if we want to go there and properly buy land but people don't want to sell it to us, we shall simply leave them there and develop our commerce in the direction of other areas which belong to us."발음듣기
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And he recognized that there were other people there that might not want to sell their land to those that might settle this new State.발음듣기
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Later on his life, actually shortly before his death, he actually writes a novel about this potential State that might be created.발음듣기
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He writes, and this is written in Altneuland, it literally translates to The Old New Land, "It is founded on the ideas which are a common product of all civilized nations.발음듣기
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It would be immoral if we would exclude anyone whatever his origin, his decent, or his religion, from participating in our achievements, for we stand on the shoulders of other civilized peoples.발음듣기
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