Background (non-examinable)

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Key Terms

• Holy Land
• Promised Land
• Ancient Israel
• Jewish Roman War 66-73
• Diaspora
• Holy Sites –
• Temple Mount – including Wailing Wall (Solomon’s Temple), the Dome of the Rock, Al-Asqa Mosque, The Holy Sepulchre
• The Crusades
• Anti-Semitism
• Ghettoes
• Russian Pogroms
• Dreyfus Affair
• Zionism – Theodore Herzl
• Kosher
• Yiddish/Hebrew
• Ottoman Empire
• Turks and Arabs

Readings

• Brash, pp. 3-4
• Hodder, pp. 2-3: The Jewish Claim to Palestine; pp. 4-5: The Arab Claim to Palestine;
• Edexcel, pp. 2-5; 11-12

Tasks

• When and where was modern political zionism founded?
• Was there more than one kind of Zionism?
• When did Arab nationalism emerge and what were its goals

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