A playlist from The Jewish Story
Menachem Begin
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The Revolt Against British Rule and the Struggle Within the Underground
November 29, 2018 · 60 min · Episode page →
As European Jewry was consumed by the Shoah, the Zionists in the land of Israel gradually came to see the British blocking the gates of Israel as their...
About this playlist
Menachem Begin, from the underground to the 1977 upheaval, Camp David and the Lebanon War.
Where this sits in the story
3 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
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