A playlist from The Jewish Story
The Birth of Zionism
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The Ultimate Ism
September 8, 2018 · 62 min · Episode page →
It's time to talk about nationalism. Here is a presentation of the underpinnings of nationalist thought along with a look at what is happening in the Pale of...
About this playlist
From the age of nationalism to the first pioneers: the heralds of Zion, Herzl at Basel, the New Jew, and the religion of labor that built the land one dunam at a time.
Where this sits in the story
1840–1914 · 2 of 9 eras
The Second Temple600 BCE–70 CESages and Geonim70–1000Sefarad and Ashkenaz1000–1492After the Expulsion1492–1700Modernity Arrives1700–1880Return and Catastrophe1880–1948The Young State1948–1967After 19671967–1987Into the Present1987–2023
More in 2,500 years, in order
SeriesThe Second Temple Era
Where the Jewish Story begins: the return from Babylon, the Men of the Great Assembly, the Greek encounter, the…10 episodes →
SeriesAfter the Destruction: Rome, Babylon and the Geonim
How a people without a land stayed a people: the refusal to be absorbed by Rome, the portable homeland of Torah, the…7 episodes →
SeriesGolden Age to Expulsion: The Jews of Spain
The full arc of Sefarad: its legendary origins, Yehuda HaLevi and the Rambam, the Zohar, the riots of 1391, the…10 episodes →Series