The 1900s

TIMELINE 7 · THE 1900S

The 1900s

1900 to 1909 Conflict Rule and borders Diplomacy and law Settlement Faith and learning Literature and arts

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The Second Aliyah begins, the first kibbutz is founded and Tel Aviv rises beside Jaffa. The Bezalel art school opens in Jerusalem.

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TURNING POINTS ALSO IN THIS DECADE

The Uganda Plan. Britain offers land in East Africa after

the Kishinev pogrom. The Zionist Congress debates it

and rejects it in 1905.

Rabbi Kook arrives in Jaffa.

Abraham Isaac Kook becomes rabbi of Jaffa and

the farming villages and starts to bridge religious and

secular Zionists.

The Russian pogroms. Pogroms follow the failed revolution of 1905. They push

Jews to the Second Aliyah

and to America.

Tel Aviv and Degania. Jewish families found Tel Aviv beside Jaffa. The first

kibbutz is founded at

Degania.

1900 About 50,000 Jews live in the land. 1900 Rothschild transfers his colonies to the Jewish Colonization Association.

1901 The Jewish National Fund is founded to buy land.

1901 Kfar Tavor and Yavne’el are founded in the Galilee.

1903 The Kishinev pogrom in Russia pushes more Jews to leave. 1903 The Anglo-Palestine Bank opens in Jaffa.

1904 The Second Aliyah begins and brings thousands of Jews from Eastern Europe.

1904 Theodor Herzl dies in Austria at 44. 1904 A. D. Gordon arrives and preaches the dignity of labor.

1905 The family of the painter Nahum Gutman comes to the land.

1905 The Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium opens in Jaffa. 1905 The Hapoel Hatzair labor party is founded.

1905 The Seventh Zionist Congress rejects the Uganda Plan.

1906 The Bezalel art school opens in Jerusalem.

1906 David Ben-Gurion arrives in Jaffa. 1906 Aaron Aaronsohn finds wild wheat near Rosh Pina. 1906 Jun 14 A pogrom in Bialystok kills dozens.

1907 Yitzhak Ben-Zvi arrives and joins Hashomer.

1908 The Young Turk revolution restores the Ottoman constitution.

1908 Arthur Ruppin opens the Palestine Office in Jaffa. 1908 S. Y. Agnon arrives in Jaffa. 1908 The first volume of Ben-Yehuda’s Hebrew dictionary appears.

1909 The Hashomer watchmen’s group forms to guard Jewish farms. 1909 Rachel Bluwstein arrives and later becomes a poet. 1909 Yosef Haim Brenner arrives in Jaffa.

1909 Apr 11 Sixty families draw lots for plots in Tel Aviv.

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