Siyon Aşıkları Hareketi (1884-1897)
Özet
The Lovers of Zion Movement was born in Eastern Europe due to the assassination of
the Russian Tsar Alexander II in 1881 and the Jewish pogroms that followed. This
situation mobilized Jewish leaders such as Leon Pinsker and showed that the
assimilation and integration policies implemented with the Haskala idea were futile.
Integration was therefore replaced by emigration. In the 19th century, the Palestinian
territories, to which Jews migrated with individual means and support, were a perfect fit
for the Jews. Because for the Jews, Palestine was a memory, a descendant, a historical
consciousness. Pinsker's manifesto Auto-Emancipation, written in 1882, declared that
the fate of the Jews was in their own hands. The maskilim were the intellectuals of the
Jewish people who became convinced of the futility of assimilation. They led the Jews
in seeking remedies and organizing: The Lovers of Zion. Organized as the first local
and regional associations, this structure united secular and conservative Jews. With the
1884 Kattowitz Conference, it became centralized. The Lovers of Zion established
colonies in Palestine with the support of philanthropic Jews such as Baron Edmond
Rothschild for the organization and sustainability of immigration to Palestine. These
pre-Herzl colonies played a crucial role in the development of practical zionism. In this
study, the Lovers of Zion Movement, one of the pioneers of Jewish immigration to
Palestine, will be analyzed. At the same time, it will touch upon Leon Pinsker by
explaining the Lovers of Zion, the catalyst of Jewish immigration, with a cause-and effect relationship. In addition, the development of the movement and its impact on
zionism within the framework of its intellectual implications will be explained. Thus, it
aims to contribute to the development of the idea of zionism and to understand the
origins of the Jewish-Arab conflict that still occupies the agenda.
