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4 unusual facts about Hovevei Zion


Hovevei Zion

The group of Warsaw was found by L. L. Zamenhof, who was working on the first grammar of Yiddish ever written, published under the pseudonym "Dr. X" only in 1909, in Lebn un visnshaft, in the article "Vegn a yidisher gramatik un reform in der yidisher shprakh".

In the Russian Empire, waves of pogroms of 1881-1884 (some allegedly state-sponsored), as well as the and anti-Semitic May Laws of 1882 introduced by Tsar Alexander III of Russia, deeply affected Jewish communities.

Sir Moses Montefiore was appointed executor of his will, and used the funds for a variety of projects, including building in 1860 the first Jewish residential settlement and almshouse outside of the old walled city of Jerusalem - today known as Mishkenot Sha'ananim.

Sulamith Ish-kishor

Her father was a well-known author of Jewish children's literature and an early proponent of Hovevei Zion (a pre-zionist movement) and later of political Zionism.


Be'er Tuvia

The village was almost abandoned, but in 1896, the association of Hovevei Zion in Odessa purchased the land and new settlers came.

Halutz

It may refer to early Jewish immigrants to Palestine, including Hovevei Zion and Bilu during the First Aliyah, which generally pre-date the founding of Zionism.


see also

Samuel Mohilever

After the pogroms following the May Laws, he helped found the Hovevei Zion in Warsaw, and convinced Baron Edmond James de Rothschild to financially support a settlement called Ekron (now Qiryat Ekron).