A playlist from The Jewish Story
Building the Yishuv: Balfour to the Arab Revolt
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Rumors of War
September 25, 2018 · 51 min · Episode page →
The world is starting to shake with the rumbles of the the coming world war. The destruction which is to come will sweep away much of the old,...
About this playlist
The Zionist movement grows into a state-in-the-making: the alliance with Britain, the challenge of Jewish power, the conflict within, interwar Jewry, and the Arab Revolt of 1936.
Where this sits in the story
1914–1939 · 1 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
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