Due to this‚ there is a tendency amongst scholars to show a disproportionate amount of attention to the Jewish historical context‚ such has the Yishuv and Zionism. The majority of information that has been accumulated has been pieced together post 1948 and 1967‚ after the forced dispersions of Arabs from their lands. The forced removal of Arabs resulted in the destruction of important historical documents
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entity. In the region of Palestine the people did not always identify as Palestinians‚ instead they identified with their families or their clans. “Palestinian” itself is a new term given to the people of the region in response to the development of zionism and Israeli nationalism. This is displayed in Mornings of Jenin when the community and mother of Hassan did not approve of Dalia due to her bedouin roots. However‚ as she began to live with Hassan and the conflict began to develop she was accepted
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The Dirty War was a period of strong political instability and violence that surged through Argentina beginning in the late 1960s‚ and lasting for nearly a decade. This epoch of violence emerged at the end of the era of Juan Peron‚ who was a beloved Argentine leader. The terrorism that followed was not a total shock‚ as Argentina is somewhat prone to violence and political instability. Jacobo Timerman‚ the author and protagonist in Prisoner without a Name‚ Cell without a Number‚ states that terrorism
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demand the Palestinian land. Prior to the United Nations vote on Palestine (the land)‚ “a civil war broke out between the two communities” (224). Zionism gave a religious community the right to call itself a nation in a way that the Palestinian national movement could not uphold. This is due to the “fact that Palestinian nationalism developed later than Zionism” and divisions within the Arab community (222). In James Gelvin’s book‚
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The Ottoman Empire is one of the largest and longest lived of the great empires of the Middle East. The Ottoman Empire survived for more than four centuries until it was finally dismantled at the end of World War I in 1918. The Ottoman Empire provides a direct link from the early modern period. At its height of power‚ the Ottoman Empire controlled a huge amount of territory‚ in the Middle East‚ North Africa and southeastern Europe including Greece‚ Hungary‚ the Balkans‚ Romania and Bulgaria. The
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Born in Rumania in 1847‚ Solomon Schechter was raised in a Chabad Chassidic community. He disliked his Chassidic roots‚ and left to study at the University of Berlin in 1879‚ where he became to be a famous rabbi and scholar. He later became leader of the Jewish Theological Seminary‚ a now famous academic and spiritual center for Conservative Jews‚ and in 1913‚ Schechter played a vital role in the development of the United Synagogue of America (an organization that encompasses every Conservative
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Wikipedia (2011) • Berlin Wall: This is the wall that separated East Germany from West Germany. Wikipedia (2011) • Wailing Wall of Jerusalem: It is the remnant of the ancient wall that surrounded the Jewish Temple courtyard. With the rise of Zionism movement in the early 20th century‚ the wall became a source of friction between the Jewish community and the Muslims. Wikipedia (2011) • Impregnable: This mean it cannot be broken into. Wikipedia (2011) • Moat: This is a deep wide ditch‚ usually
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involve her father boarding up the windows of their house in the Jewish ghetto to protect against an angry mob (known as pogroms). Because of this danger Golda and her family moved to the United States. It was here that Golda was first introduced to Zionism as she became involved in the Zionist group Poale Zion‚ membership of which required Golda to commit to moving to Palestine at the age of 17 (a commitment she fulfilled in the spring of 1921). In 1921 Golda Meir‚ her husband Morris Meyerson‚ her sister
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Bayezid I- (r.1389-1402) Ottoman ruler who started to besiege Constantinople in 1395. The Europeans saw him as a new threat to Christendom‚ and Hungary’s king led English‚ French‚ German‚ and Balkan knights in a crusade against the Turks. He defeated them at Nicopolis‚ and moved their capital from Bursa to France. If Bayezid had not defeated the Christians‚ the Ottoman Empire might not have taken Constantinople. The armies of Timur defeated him near Ankara in 1402 where he was taken prisoner and
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“scientific celebrity”. The main purpose of that trip was to use his fame to raise funds for a Jewish university in Jerusalem‚ which became Hebrew University. He was not widely accepted because of some of his political views. At some extent he advocated Zionism‚ and he did not agree with nationalism and assimilation‚ especially in regard to Jewish Germans. Furthermore‚ the political conflicts caused him to lose the opportunity of lecturing at Harvard; however‚ he was invited to lecture at Princeton University
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