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The Zionist churches of southern Africa were founded by Petrus Louis Le Roux, an Afrikaner faith healer. [2] He was a former member of the Dutch Reformed Church who joined John Alexander Dowie's Christian Catholic Church based in Zion, Illinois. In 1903 Dowie sent a Daniel Bryant to South Africa to work alongside Le Roux.
The World Zionist Organization established the Jewish National Fund (JNF) in 1901, with the stated goal "to redeem the land of Palestine as the inalienable possession of the Jewish people." The notion of land "redemption" entailed that the land could not be sold and could not be leased to a non-Jew nor should the land be worked by Arabs. [ 147 ]
Samuel Mohilever (1824–1898), born in the Russian Empire (Belarus) Religious Zionist, a founder of the Hovevei Zion; Max Nordau (1849–1923), born in the Austrian Empire (Hungary), involved in the foundation of the Zionist Organisation (later World Zionist Organisation) Erna Patak (1871–1955), Austrian social worker and women's activist
Organized Zionism appeared in Morocco in the period just before colonization, around 1900–1912. [8] The Israeli historian Michael Laskier cites some early sources of Zionism in Moroccan coastal cities, which had more direct contact with Europe as well as populations of Jews who received a European education, especially through the Alliance Israélite Universelle: in Tetuan, where the Russian ...
Outraged by what he considered the dangerous and prejudicial treatment of fellow Jews in Vienna in the late 19th century, Herzl, trained as a lawyer and a prolific writer, established the Zionist ...
The Old Cornerstone Apostolic Church in Zion of South Africa, under Archbishop Mawethu Anthwell, had its beliefs grow out of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth religious missions in Southern Africa. In particular the churches owe their origins to the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church of John Alexander Dowie , based in Zion, Illinois , in the ...
Aliyah from Ethiopia is the immigration of the Beta Israel people to Israel.Early forms of Zionism have existed in Ethiopia since the mid 19th century, [1] as shown in the 1848 letters from the Beta Israel to Jews in Europe praying for the unification of Jews.
It initially considered loctions other than Palestine (e.g. in Africa) and did not foresee migration by many Western Jews to the new homeland. [5] Nathan Birnbaum, a Jew from Vienna, was the original father of Political Zionism, yet ever since he defected away from his own movement, Theodor Herzl has become known as the face of modern Zionism ...