Zionism
ZionismA movement advocating the return of Jews to Palestine founded in 1897 under the leadership of Theodore Herzl . Originally a secular movement, Zionism has its foundation in the millenarian belief that the Jews, the chosen people of God, will be reunited from diaspora (dispersion or exile) in their rightful homeland. After the Russian pogroms of 1881 , Leo Pinsker wrote a pamphlet, Auto-Emanzipation, appealing for the establishment of a Jewish colony in Palestine. Zionism assumed a political character, notably through Herzl's Der Judenstaat ( 1896 ). The issue of the Balfour Declaration in 1917 and the grant of a mandate for Palestine to...
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