Zeire Zion
Zeire Zion ( Hebrew צעירי ציון; "Youth of Zion") was a socialist Zionist youth organization in Eastern Europe and Palestine in the first half of the 20th century.
history
The first Zionist youth organizations emerged in Eastern Europe in the late 19th century. Between 1898 and 1900 the first group with the name Zeire Zion was created in Bessarabia in the Russian Empire . In 1903, Zeire Zion was officially established and spread across Russia. Further groups emerged in Romania , Galicia and Congress Poland . In 1917 Zeire Zion had about 40,000 members.
During the second wave of Aliyah , members of Zeire Zion immigrated to Israel and in 1905 were among the founders of the HaPoel HaZair party . Other members created the Hechaluz organization with the third wave of Aliyah . These included many leading politicians who had a decisive influence on the political life of the independent state of Israel in the first decades after the founding of the state.
In 1919, the Achdut HaAwoda party was formed in Palestine from the merger of the two left-wing groups Poale Zion and Zeire Zion. In 1920 Zeire Zion was also founded in North America. On February 29, 1921, the local group in Cologne was formed. In 1921 the "Zionist socialist world association of Zeire Zion" was established after groups had left the socialist wing of the Zeire Zion movement because of their union with the Hapoel Hazair movement to form the Hichduth.
Content orientation
According to Elkanah Mergalith, the members, mainly middle school students , wanted to “broaden their knowledge of Judaism” and “were imbued with the Jewish national spirit and tied to the goals of the Enlightenment movement abstract logical constructions that distinguished the Talmudic schools. ”Zeire Zion was rooted in the teachings of Zionism, Jewish history and socialist thought. Members studied Hebrew and Arabic and other skills in order to later successfully settle in Palestine.
literature
- Shmuel Gilboa: Tenu'at ze'irei-ziyon berusiyah: mimahapeikhat february 1917 ve'ad lefilug hatenu'ah be-1920 ( The Young Zion Movement in Russia: From the February 1917 Revolution Until Its Schism in 1920 ), Tel Aviv, 1990
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hannah Arendt , Eike Geisel , Klaus Bittermann : The Crisis of Zionism: Essays and Commentaries 2 , Tiamat, 1989, p. 229
- ^ Maier Bryan Fox: Labor Zionism in America: The Challenge of the 1920's. P. 55.
- ^ Suska Döpp : Jewish youth movement in Cologne 1906-1938. P. 125.
- ↑ Moscheh Ya'akov Ben-Gavriêl (Eugen Hoeflich): Diaries 1915 to 1927. Vienna 1999, p. 319.
- ↑ Elkana Margalith: The social and intellectual origins of the Jewish youth movement "Hashomer Hatzair", 1913-1920 ; in: Archive for Social History (AfS), Volume 10 (1970), pp. 265–267
- ↑ http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/kupiskis/youthg.htm