Gordis 5 – Aliyah, in Waves | Tribe Talk Connection

Throughout the first half of the 20th century, waves of Jewish immigrants made Aliyah to the region, each bringing particular experiences and ideas to the land that would become a Jewish state in 1948. Dr. Daniel Gordis describes these waves, the eruption of violence and antisemitism that met them, and first talk of partition, including British establishment of the 1937 Peel Commission, formally proposing two states.

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