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==History==

==History==

Although Jews have been returning to their homeland throughout the last two thousand years, the movement in its modern guise was started in the 1890s.  

Although Jews have been returning to their homeland throughout the last two thousand years, the movement in its modern form began in the 1890s.  

For many centuries there was talk but no action; Jews did not have their own country, and most were restricted to [[ghetto]]s. By 1810 the [[French Revolution]] and [[Napoleon]] liberated most of the Jews of Europe from the ghettos, allowing a new level of mobility. The [[Romanticism]] of the 19th century inspired a modern Jewish identity that led to much talk of their own nation.  The movement was inspired by the writings of Moses Hess, David Luzatto, Leo Pinsker, Zvi Kalischer, and Yehudah Alkalai; funding came from philanthropists Moses Montefiore, Edmond de Rothschild, and Maurice de Hirsch.  

For many centuries there was talk but no action; Jews did not have their own country, and most were restricted to [[ghetto]]s. By 1810 the [[French Revolution]] and [[Napoleon]] liberated most of the Jews of Europe from the ghettos, allowing a new level of mobility. The [[Romanticism]] of the 19th century inspired a modern Jewish identity that led to much talk of their own nation.  The movement was inspired by the writings of Moses Hess, David Luzatto, Leo Pinsker, Zvi Kalischer, and Yehudah Alkalai; funding came from philanthropists Moses Montefiore, Edmond de Rothschild, and Maurice de Hirsch.