Originally posted by irosie91
Herzl pushed the idea of POLITICAL ZIONISM----(ie unrelated to religion) in the late 19th century----which opened the movement to secularists----HOWEVER ...at that point the Zionist project which resulted in the state of Israel in 1948 was already in FULL SWING----Tel aviv already existed as did RISHON L'tZION-----REAL CITIES IN the land of Israel (ERETZ YISRAEL)
Rishon LeZion - founded in
1882 by Russian Jews fleeing anti-jewish pogroms in Eastern Europe (political not religious reasons) and financed by Edmond de Rothschild, the founder of
PICA (Palestine Jewish Colonization Association).
Rothschild is almost a synonym with political zionism.
Tel Aviv - founded in
1909, a city whose name was the subject of a heated debate among zionists, with many Jews wanting to name it "Herzliya" and then finally settling for a compromise solution:
Tel Aviv, the title in Hebrew of one of Theodor Herzl's books.
You really should choose your examples more carefully, rosie, because Rishon and Tel Aviv are two historical testaments to the fact that political zionism (the colonization of Palestine) did start around 1880 and not in the early 1800's.
1909?
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Jerusalem (After 1291)
"...5. Present condition of the City: (1907 edition)
Jerusalem (El Quds) is the capital of a sanjak and the seat of a mutasarrif directly dependent on the Sublime Porte. In the administration of the sanjak the mutasarrif is assisted by a council called
majlis ida ra; the city has a municipal government (
majlis baladiye) presided over by a mayor. The total population is estimated at 66,000.
The Turkish census of 1905, which counts only Ottoman subjects, gives these figures:
Jews, 45,000; Moslems, 8,000; Orthodox Christians, 6000; Latins, 2500; Armenians, 950; Protestants, 800; Melkites, 250; Copts, 150; Abyssinians, 100; Jacobites, 100; Catholic Syrians, 50. During the Nineteenth century large suburbs to the north and east have grown up, chiefly for the use of the Jewish colony. These suburbs contain nearly Half the present population...""
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Growth of Jerusalem 1838-Present
....... Jews Muslims Christians Total
1838 6,000 5,000 3,000 14,000
1844 7,120 5,760 3,390 16,270 ..... ...The First Official Ottoman Census (mbig/abu afak)
1876 12,000 7,560 5,470 25,030 .... .....Second """"""""""
1905 40,000 8,000 10,900 58,900 ....... Third/last, detailed in CathEncyc above
1948 99,320 36,680 31,300 167,300
1990 353,200 124,200 14,000 491,400
1992 385,000 150,000 15,000 550,000
http://www.testimony-magazine.org/jerusalem/bring.htm
Link expired but the Ottoman Census figures, which form it's backbone, and I noted were from the Ottoman counts, are not in dispute.
The later numbers widely available.
The first line/1838 probably approximated using regression analysis.
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