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ZAKHORIUM
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Date

1912CE

1912–1930

Labor, health care, and Kook's rabbinate gave the Yishuv an outline of a state.

Political historySocial and economic historyReligious history32.0819°N 34.7681°E
A World Upended: each bar is an event of the period; this one is in coral.

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6 statements

Statements for this event

01

In 1920, that generation founded the Histadrut, a union, builder, and social insurer.

03

Henrietta Szold founded Hadassah in 1912; by 1927 there were more than 40,000 American members.

02

In 1930, the left formed Mapai, under Ben-Gurion and Arlosoroff, accepting private capital.

04

After 1929, the Jewish Agency took over the Haganah.

05

Ben-Gurion defined diaspora life as dependence and proposed to break it.

06

Avraham Yitzhak Kook, appointed Ashkenazic chief rabbi in 1921, allied Orthodoxy and Zionism.

§ 01Geography

Where it happened

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§ 04Network

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    § 05Bibliography

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    § 06Apparatus

    Sources on this page

    1. 01Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 408inspect
    2. 02Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 408inspect
    3. 03Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 408inspect
    4. 04Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 408inspect
    5. 05Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 408inspect
    6. 06Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 408inspect
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