Hovevei Zion

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Hovevei Zion was an early Jewish nationalist movement in Eastern Europe that promoted Jewish agricultural settlement in Palestine and laid important groundwork for modern Zionism.


Statements (63)
Predicate Object
instanceOf Jewish nationalist movement
Zionist organization
pre-Zionist movement
alternativeName Hibbat Zion
Hovevei Tzion
Lovers of Zion NERFINISHED
appliedForPermissionFrom Ottoman Empire
countryOfOrigin Russian Empire
dissolved 1897
late 1890s
hasEffect created early Zionist organizational structures
encouraged practical settlement in Palestine
laid groundwork for political Zionism
hasNotableMember Ahad Ha'am NERFINISHED
Chaim Weizmann NERFINISHED
Hermann Schapira NERFINISHED
Leon Pinsker NERFINISHED
Menachem Ussishkin NERFINISHED
Moshe Leib Lilienblum NERFINISHED
Rabbi Shmuel Mohilever
Samuel Mohilever NERFINISHED
Yehiel Michael Pines
hasPart Bilu
Odessa Committee
local societies of Hovevei Zion
headquartersLocation Odessa NERFINISHED
ideology Jewish nationalism
proto-Zionism
religious nationalism
inception 1881
early 1880s
influenced First Zionist Congress
Theodor Herzl
World Zionist Organization
modern Zionism
influencedBy Jewish Enlightenment (Haskalah) NERFINISHED
Russian pogroms of 1881–1882
antisemitism in Eastern Europe
languageOfWorkOrName Hebrew
Russian
Yiddish
mainActivity funding Jewish agricultural colonies in Palestine
land purchase in Palestine
organizing Jewish emigration to Palestine
political lobbying for Jewish settlement rights in Palestine
mergedInto World Zionist Organization NERFINISHED
movementGoal Jewish agricultural settlement in Palestine
creation of a Jewish national home in Palestine
encouragement of Jewish immigration to Palestine
revival of Jewish national life in the Land of Israel
notableWork establishment of Rishon LeZion
support for the founding of Gedera
support for the founding of Nes Ziona
support for the founding of Rosh Pinna
support for the founding of Zikhron Ya'akov
participatedIn First Zionist Congress NERFINISHED
regionOfActivity Eastern Europe NERFINISHED
Lithuania NERFINISHED
Poland
Romania
Russian Empire NERFINISHED
Ukraine
religion Judaism

Referenced by (5)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Ahad Ha'am
Eliyahu Berligne
memberOf
Hovevei Zion ("Hovevei Tzion")
alternativeName
Leo Pinsker
movement
Ottoman Palestine ("First Aliyah (Jewish immigration wave, 1882–1903)")
significantEvent

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