Zionism - Chovei Tzion

Question 1

Since when have Jews been living in Eretz Yisrael Continously

Answer 1

Since the beginning of the 2nd Bais Hamikdash

2500 years ago

Question 2

However from the year _____ there were never more than few ____ Jews in ____

Answer 2

1) 500-1500
2) 100
3) Eretz Yisrael

Question 3

Around the year 1500 Jews from where began settling where (2 places)
Until when?
The Jewish presence was mostly….

Answer 3

1) Spain
2) ירושלים וtzfat
3) 1700
4) the Jewish presence was mostly sephardic

Question 4

Eretz Yisrael was then ruled by…..
Who did what to the Sephardic Jews
As well as who

Answer 4

1) ottoman Turks
2) persecuted the Sephardic Jews
3) the local Arabs who treated the Jews poorly too

Question 5

Who began coming to Eretz Yisrael mid 1700s

Answer 5

Groups of ashkenazi Jews

Question 6

Followers of who

Established what in Eretz Yisrael

Answer 6

1) Bal Shem Tov
2) Vilna Gaon
3) small communities

Question 7

Who was there an argument between?

That gave all ____ in Eretz Yisrael protection of their home countries

Answer 7

1) turkey and other European countries

2) foreigners

Question 8

As a result of Ashkis living in Eretz Yisrael

Answer 8

They gained more power than the Sephardi Jews living there

Question 9

By 1846 who was the most of Eretz

Yisrael

Answer 9

Jews

Question 10

Why was living Eretz Yisrael extremely difficult in the 1800s

Answer 10

There was poverty, disease and an earthquake

Question 11

How were Jews mostly supported?

In Eretz Yisrael

Answer 11

Charity sent by Jews living in their home

countries one Europe

Question 12

Mid 1800s - what did Moses Montefiore build?
Why?
Where was this built?

Answer 12

1) flour mill
2) Jews would be self sufficient
3) in the 1st neighborhood outside of the walls of ירושלים

Question 13

What movement became popular in the 1860s

Answer 13

Chivat Tzion

Question 14

What were the followers of Chivat Tzion called?

Answer 14

Chavevi Tzion

Question 15

What was the Shivat Izion's idea (3
reason)
(Promote what)
(Help…..)
(And provide them what)

Answer 15

Promote Jewish immigration to Palestine
Help ppl get there and provide a means
for them to be self sufficient

Question 16

Ppl of this movement was a strange mix

Who was in this movement

Answer 16

Some great rabbis
Atheists
Religious Jews and maskilim

Question 17

what was the basis of the chivat tzion

Answer 17

the religious idea that Jews have a connection to the land of Yerushaliym
even though many of its followers were not religious

Question 18

who was the spiritual leader of the Chivat Tzion

Answer 18

R’ Tzvi Hirsh Kalischer

Question 19

What were the three things  R' Tzvi Hirsh Kalischer talked about?
#1: by returning to \_\_\_\_ we can \_\_\_\_\_
#2: Where should Jews be trained in? Why?
#3: Jews should be encouraged to emigrate from \_\_\_\_ no matter \_\_\_

Answer 19

1) eretz yisrael
bring Moshiach
2) Agriculture
to be self-sufficient in Israel
3) Russia
what the cost is

Question 20

around the same time - what was released?

this inspired…

Answer 20

1) 2 secular books encouraging the move to Eretz Yisrael

2) many non-religious Jews to join the Chivat Tzion movement

Question 21

why were non-religious jews and extreme maskilim against this movement
Chivat Tzion

Answer 21

didnt accept the concept of a Jewish nation would have nothing to do w/ Jews returning to Eretz Yisrael

Question 22

Two major reasons why Religious Jews were against it

1) Large # of ____ and their ____ within the ____
2) The belif of some that we cannot___

Answer 22

1) secular Jews
influence
movement
2) force Moshiach to come

Question 23

who was one of the main financial backers of the movement
who was he
looked for what
he devoted himself to ___
and considered it _____
It is estimated that he gave over ____ to _____

Answer 23

1) Baron Edmand De RothsChild
2) a major philanthropist
3) opt to give 2 charity
4) supporting the settlements in Palestine
5) to be his mission in life
6) 70 million gold franks
to purchase eland 4 ppl to move into