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
The Zionist movement worked very hard in the 20th century to see a Jewish homeland come true. First, a British Zionist leader received a declaration from British Foreign Secretary Arthur J. Balfour that approved the establishment in Palestine of a "national home for the Jewish people." This provided the Zionists with the charter they had been seeking from a wealthy backer. Now all the Zionists had to do was get Jewish people to move to Israel. This was not done so easily. The new Soviet government sealed off the tradition source of Zionist migration, which was Russian Jewry. Also, the leader of American Zionism, Judge Louis Brandeis, and Dr. Chaim Weizmann, the man credited with obtaining the Balfour Declaration, got into an argument over the future of Zionism, which slowed the migration of Jews to Israel greatly. Despite these two critical setbacks, the Yishuv grew from fifty thousand to six hundred thousand people from nineteen twenty to nineteen forty-eight. Most of these new immigrants were refugees from Nazi persecution in Europe. The New Zionist party was formed in nineteen thirty-five when
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