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Temple Beth-El (House of God) of Knoxville, which has existed for 160 years, is the oldest Jewish congregation in East Tennessee. After the Civil War, Knoxville became a boomtown.
But this is wholly fallacious. The "Jewish State" was never part of the Zionist programme. The "Jewish State" was the title of Herzl's first pamphlet, which had the supreme merit of forcing people to think. This pamphlet was followed by the first Zionist Congress, which accepted the Basle programme—the only programme in existence." [15]
The Founding of Knoxville. (East Tennessee Historical Society, 1941.) History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present: Together With an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of From Twenty-Five to Thirty Counties of East Tennessee. (The Goodspeed Publishing Co., Chicago, Nashville, 1887.) Hooper, Ed. Images of America: Knoxville.
In 1820, in a precursor to modern Zionism, Mordecai Manuel Noah tried to found a Jewish homeland at Grand Island, New York in the Niagara River, to be called "Ararat" after Mount Ararat, the Biblical resting place of Noah's Ark. He erected a monument at the island which read "Ararat, a City of Refuge for the Jews, founded by Mordecai M. Noah in ...
Pages in category "National Register of Historic Places in Knoxville, Tennessee" The following 87 pages are in this category, out of 87 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Knoxville is a city in and the county seat of Knox County, Tennessee, United States, on the Tennessee River. [15] As of the 2020 United States census, Knoxville's population was 190,740, [16] making it the largest city in the East Tennessee Grand Division and the state's third-most-populous city after Nashville and Memphis. [17]
John Sevier is an census-designated place in central-eastern Knox County, Tennessee. [2] It is 9.3 miles (15.0 km) northeast of downtown Knoxville. [5] The John Sevier Yard, a multi-track rail yard operated by Norfolk Southern Railway, is located just south of the community in the Knoxville city limits.
But the protests continued, reaching fever pitch in 1933, as more Jewish immigrants arrived to make a home for themselves, the influx accelerating from 4,000 in 1931 to 62,000 in 1935.