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Resources for 2/6/2025:

Session 3 Materials Part A - From Haskalahlick

The Roots of Zionism: Resources for further learning

• What is Nationalism and How Did it Spread? | World History Project 11 Minutes
• Hidden History of Zionism Efrayim Palvanov

For a history of Zionism from a particularistic Jewish perspective look no further than this lecture, complete with miracles, hidden signs in Kabbalah and Rabbinic prophecies of Messianic end of days. According to which Jewish adherence to the divine promise and antisemitism alone brought us to the moment in the modern age when modern Zionism emerged on the scene. 

As we have seen, the context is much greater and meaningful. For a broad historical treatment of the subject from :

• Zionism and Its Critics 1882-1948 by Arie Dubnov (Academic Course) Associate professor of history and International Affairs and director of the Middle East Program at The George Washington University, Senior Lecturer at the School of History at the University of Haifa, Israel.

8 videos 

Playlist intro: What were Zionism’s social, political, and intellectual origins? How was it related to other forms of Jewish nationalism? To what extent Zionism modeled itself after other national movements?  Did Zionist settlers turn a blind-eye toward the native Palestinian residents of the land, and how did they try to answer the so-called “Arab Question”? And were all Zionists aiming to establish an independent nation-state in Palestine from the onset, or were there other – additional and sometimes competing – interpretations of the Zionist visions? Getting rid of slogans and going beyond hyperbole, this class seeks to answer these and other questions.
 

• The Jews of Galicia: A history  By Prof. Joshua Shanes Haifa University 10 videos Highly recommended, dynamic speaker. (Academic Course)
  
  From the birth of Galicia with the first partition of Poland to the post Holocaust era. 
   
  • Zionism Before Herzl (1882-1896) 32 Minutes
  • The Russian Haskalah (1815-1856) 26 Minutes
• Bim Bam for adults
  • How Modern Judaism Began: Emancipation and the Enlightenment 5 Min.
  • What is Hasidic Judaism? A Brief History of the Movement 5 Min.

FILM

• Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness

2011 ‧ Documentary ‧ 1h 53m
Wonderful film. Very much worth the $3.99 on Apple TV

LISTEN 

• Podcast “The Jewish Story” with Rabbi Mike Feuer 

In season two beginning in episode 13 Rav Mike Feuer talks about topics that are on our agenda. You may not share his politics or lifestyle but he brings a wealth of knowledge which he approaches with a dose of skepticism, and great presentation. 

Season 2 - The Jewish Story

READING

• The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe

From the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

• ​​​​​​​Ha’aretz 1856: Russia Stops Conscripting Jewish Children