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The aim of Zionism is to create for the Jewish people a home in Palestine secured by public law.The Congress contemplates the following means to the attainment of this end:
- The promotion, on suitable…
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The First Zionist Congress
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Basel, Switzerland
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1897
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The great controversy in Bohemia surrounding the language legislation shows Austrian Jews in a strange position. They go along loyally with those who only yesterday had been their fiercest enemies—and…
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Theodor Herzl
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Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
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1897
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We recently received from Vienna the new newspaper of the “Zionists,” Die Welt. It appeared on the eve of the holiday of the Feast of Weeks, which reminds us more than any other holiday that it was…
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Protestrabiner
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Berlin, Germany
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1897
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A Jewish girl, having been sent by her parents on an errand to a Jewish neighbour, was one day suddenly seized in the street by a Moslem and forcibly carried off to a Moslem house and compelled to…
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Morris Cohen
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Hamadan, Iran
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1893
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Written today, the 13th of the month of Adar 5653 (March 1, 1893), and addressed by us, the poor and downtrodden members of the community of Urumia, may God protect it, with a thousand greetings and…
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The Jewish Community of Urmiya
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Urumia, Iran (Urmia, Iran)
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1894
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[ . . . ] [A]n Ashkenazic sage came to Ṣanʿāʾ in the time of Sar Shalom al-ʿIrāqī (d. 1780) . . . and stayed at his house and ate at his table. Fearing for the Ashkenazi’s life, Sar Shalom told him…
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Ḥayim Ḥabshūsh
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Sana'a, Ottoman Empire (Sanaa, Yemen)
Date:
1894
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A hundred thousand men, women, and children, some of them fugitives still suffering the punishment of Cain, others just sloughing the Ghetto skin, yet others in whose ears the “hep, hep” of the…
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Simon Gelberg
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London, United Kingdom
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1901
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Khaye-Gite came. She is a typical grandmother. She talks to God quietly, politely. She wasn’t too keen on telling us about being a grandmother. She just told us a few things. She knows lots…
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S. An-ski
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Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
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1912–1913
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We are embarking on the publication of a new journal devoted to the affairs of the workers and masses of the Jewish people in the Land of Israel and the Ottoman Empire. We wish to create a journal…
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Editorial Board of Ha-Aḥdut
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Jaffa, Ottoman Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
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1910
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We are calling upon the Hungarian general public and especially our Jewish coreligionists to support a new undertaking. Our undertaking does not seek to compete with an existing one; rather, it…
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Wilhelm Bacher, József Bánóczi
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Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1884