Center of Nations Gabriel Caligiuri Center of Nations Gabriel Caligiuri

ALIYAH AND AGGRESSION IN MANDATE PALESTINE

Upheaval in the nations in the wake of World War I combined with the Balfour Declaration fuels a Third Aliyah to the Eretz Yisrael. But as Jews begin to reclaim their ancestral land and build the institutions of a modern society, an ancient antagonism begins to resurface with some of their new neighbors, leading to violent pogroms in 1920-21.

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Center of Nations Gabriel Caligiuri Center of Nations Gabriel Caligiuri

THE SECOND ALIYAH (1903-1914)

Another devastating wave of pogroms in the Russian Empire leads to the Second Aliyah in the early twentieth century. Larger and better organized, Jewish olim begin building cities and forming defensive militias against their hostile neighbors.

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