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May 30, 2019
The Sephardi Role in the Flowering of Zionism
Rabbi Judah Solomon Alkalai, the Herzl of Sarajevo.
The advent of modern political Zionism in the 1890s inspired many Sephardi and Mizraḥi Jews to leave their homes for the land of Israel, and many more to establish Zionist groups in the countries where they lived. But even before that, non-Ashkenazi Jews had done much to encourage Jewish settlement in Palestine. Most importantly, Rabbi Judah Solomon Alkalai, born in Sarajevo in 1798, was, along with such Ashkenazi contemporaries as Moses Hess and Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Kalischer, a major proto-Zionist thinker, as Ashley Perry writes.
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The Sephardi Role in the Flowering of Zionism
Rabbi Judah Solomon Alkalai, the Herzl of Sarajevo.
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