- The
Lovers of Zion, also
Hovevei Zion (Hebrew: חובבי ציון) or
Hibbat Zion (Hebrew: חיבת ציון), were a
variety of proto-Zionist
organizations founded in...
-
returned to
Odessa where he was
influenced by Leon Pinsker, a
leader of the
Hovevei Zion (Lovers of Zion)
movement whose goal was
settlement of Jews in Palestine...
- Organization. It also
adopted the
Hatikvah as its
anthem (already the
anthem of
Hovevei Zion and
later to
become the
national anthem of the
State of Israel). The...
-
Agudat Ḥovevei Sfat Ever (Hebrew: אגודת חובבי שפת עבר, lit. 'Society of the
lovers of the
language of Hebrew', i.e. "Hebrew
language lovers society")...
- the Land of Israel. He
became one of the
founders and a
chairman of the
Hovevei Zion movement, with the
backing of
Baron Edmond James de Rothschild.[citation...
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spike in 1890. The
Russian Empire officially approved the
activity of
Hovevei Zion in 1890. The same year, the "Odessa Committee"
began its operation...
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arriving Zionists.
Rishon LeZion, the
first settlement founded by the
Hovevei Zion in 1882,
could be
considered the true
beginning of the New Yishuv...
-
doors into the
Jewish literary circles in Odessa. There, he
joined the
Hovevei Zion
movement where he
befriended the
author Ahad Ha'am, who had a great...
- America, but some
chose Palestine. A
driving force behind this was the
Hovevei Zion movement,
which worked from 1882 to
develop a
Hebrew identity that...
- world. In 1884, 36
Jewish Zionist delegates met in Katowice,
forming the
Hovevei Zion movement. The
pogroms prompted a
great wave of
Jewish emigration to...
