The Critical Compass Podcast - Zionism in the Early 1900s ｜ A Critical Compass Clip

00:00:00.000 to sort of summarize what the situation was between uh what happened with the the british

00:00:07.880 and the ottoman and promises made and promises broken what what was happening in that time

00:00:15.340 well to understand that time we have to actually understand um well we had the first wave of

00:00:22.220 russian jews settling into there between like 1881 and 1903 but during this time we also had

00:00:30.540 um zionism as a concept uh emerge in response to kind of the persecution of jewish people throughout

00:00:39.200 europe and 1897 that's when zionism started forming and theror herschel was that's when the term isn't

00:00:47.980 is uh coined yeah it's coined and that's where it was starting to be understood and these ideas

00:00:53.800 are being spread around still very much in its infancy this was not something that like all

00:01:00.840 orthodox jews even like recognized not everybody was on the same page uh of this so um when you

00:01:10.440 will look at zionism you could and this is relevant to kind of the promises that were made

00:01:17.380 and the way that this unfolded um if you look at the different types of zionism uh some of this

00:01:23.580 overlaps but you could split three main types into like political zionism a cultural or a spiritual

00:01:29.840 zionism and a practical zionism and you differentiate like political is all about trying to achieve the

00:01:37.460 goals of a jewish state a jewish home through political means through leveraging political power

00:01:44.520 and trying to get the legitimacy through being recognized on the international stage the cultural

00:01:52.580 or spiritual zionism was the path to establishing a jewish state was through revitalizing the culture

00:02:01.060 and creating like a spiritual hub for jewish people and also reinvigorating and like re-establishing

00:02:11.800 hebrew as a language and kind of telling the story and lighting that fire within individuals

00:02:17.500 uh and then there's a practical zionism of like saying that well goals can only be achieved by

00:02:24.520 building infrastructure and setting up good relationships with people and basically you're

00:02:32.600 creating the value and you'd be welcomed with open arms that you wouldn't have to buy political

00:02:38.240 favors you'd be creating the kind of like warm relations that that you would naturally be

00:02:44.980 accepted so um with it's interesting that's kind of the context it's interesting how uh you you

00:02:53.300 mentioned how when zionism is first um conceptualized most jews throughout the world would not have been

00:03:01.180 privy to this and would not have had um necessarily access to this idea that well now we need to

00:03:08.220 to form a homeland we need to or or more more accurately we need to rediscover our ancestral

00:03:13.900 homeland settle there and move you have disparate groups of people that generally share religion

00:03:21.260 generally share certain uh lifestyle choices things like that that that culturally make them jewish

00:03:27.600 and then you also have uh in the same kind of way you have in the in the area that would become israel and

00:03:35.740 palestine the same thing you have disparate groups of arabs who wouldn't necessarily identify all as the same

00:03:42.100 members of the same nation state generally sharing a lifestyle generally sharing cultural traits

00:03:46.900 then um the british and the ottoman they go at it yeah that was world war one ottoman empire being 0.95

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The Critical Compass Podcast - March 05, 2024