Tze'irei Zion
Tze'irei Zion (Hebrew: צעירי ציון, "Youth of Zion", sometimes spelled as Zeire Zion) was a socialist Zionist youth movement in Eastern Europe, in the first half of the 20th century that branched into the Palestine. The movement originated at the very beginning of the 20th century in the Russian Empire. [1]
The name is also translated as Young Zionists.[2]
Initially Tze'irei Zion was opposed by more radical Zionist and socialist activists from
Among the major cities with cells of the movement were
During the 1905
During the Second Aliyah, many of the members of the movement emigrated to Palestine.[1]
In 1920 there was a major split in the movement due to the difficult circumstances during the Third Conference of the movement in Kharkiv (then known as Kharkov), which happened a week after
A similar left-right split happened in 1923 among the members of the movement which stayed in Poland after the Russian Revolution.[2]
Notable members
References
Media related to Zeire Zion at Wikimedia Commons
- ^ a b c d e The Jews of Kishinev, translation of Yehudei Kishinev, Tel Aviv, 1950 p. 122, Section "Tze'irei Zion [Youth of Zion"]
- ^ a b A. Ludsky The Young Zionists (Zeirei Zion), from The Encyclopaedia of the Jewish Diaspora, vol.2: Brest Lit(owsk) (Brisk de-Lita: Encyclopedia Shel Galuyot, Jerusalem, 1958), pp. 467-476
- ^ מפלגת ציונים סוציאליסטיים, from תנועות מחתרת ציוניות בברה"מ by Yaakov Bar-Haim, 1972