JS 8, Israel Unit, p. 1 Name ______________________ Map! – Geography of Israel Directions: Locate a map of Israel on your computer or in an atlas. Locate the following cities and geographical features and write them in the correct place on your blank map. Create a key of your own to indicate waterways, mountains, cities, the capitol and kibbutzim. Netivot (Map 13) Tel Aviv-Yafo Red Sea Qatzrin (Map 1) Jericho Sderot (Map 13) Golan Heights Sea of Galilee/Kineret Syria Lebanon Mediterranean Sea West Bank Tiverya/Tiberias Kibbutz Hanaton (Conservative Kibbutz) Be’er Sheva Jordan Yerushalayim Eilat (Map 19) Egypt Haifa Masada Galilee Nablus (Shechem) Ramallah The Dead Sea Akko Tzfat/Safed Kibbutz Yotvata (Map 19) Har Hermon (Great for skiing!) Ein Gedi (Map 11) Sde Boqer (Map 17) Machtesh Ramon/Mitzpe Ramon (Map 17) Negev (Not great for skiing!) Gaza (City) Bet Lehem/Bethlehem Hebron Useful websites: http://www.eyeonisrael.com/Israel-touring-map.html (Some map numbers are given on the list above) http://www.mideastweb.org/misraeldetail.htm
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JS 8, Israel Unit, p. 1Name ______________________
Map! – Geography of Israel
Directions: Locate a map of Israel on your computer or in an atlas. Locate the following cities and geographical features and write them in the correct place on your blank map. Create a key of your own to indicate waterways, mountains, cities, the capitol and kibbutzim.
Netivot (Map 13) Tel Aviv-YafoRed Sea Qatzrin (Map 1)Jericho Sderot (Map 13)Golan Heights Sea of Galilee/KineretSyria LebanonMediterranean Sea West BankTiverya/Tiberias Kibbutz Hanaton (Conservative Kibbutz)Be’er Sheva JordanYerushalayim Eilat (Map 19)Egypt HaifaMasada GalileeNablus (Shechem) RamallahThe Dead Sea AkkoTzfat/Safed Kibbutz Yotvata (Map 19)Har Hermon (Great for skiing!) Ein Gedi (Map 11) Sde Boqer (Map 17) Machtesh Ramon/Mitzpe Ramon (Map 17)Negev (Not great for skiing!) Gaza (City)Bet Lehem/Bethlehem Hebron
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Name__________________Date____________Jewish History 8 /Levingston
Israel Unit 1: The seeds of Jewish nationalismJonathan D. Sarna and Jonathan B. Krasner, 2006, The History of the Jewish People, Springfield, NJ: Behrman House, Chapter 11, “Revolution and Emancipation,” pp. 122-9.
Do Now: Where do you think the idea of a Jewish nation in Israel originated?__________________________________________________________________________________
Topic 1: Emancipation1. Open up Sarna and Krasner, page 122. How do the authors define “emancipa-tion?”__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________2. What did emancipation mean for the Jews of Europe?__________________________________________________________________________________
3. Based on p. 123, when did Jews begin to come to North America? _____________________
What did they do in North America to earn a living and how did they mix into soci-ety?__________________________________________________________________________________
4. Would you say that the Jews in the New World (North and South America) were emancipated? ______________________________________________________________________
5. Make your own timeline (see pp. 122-3)__________________________________________________________________________________1492 1654 1776 1787 1789 1791 1858 1871
6. Based on pp. 124-5, what major documents affected the legal status of Ameri-can Jews?__________________________________________________________________________________
7. Read pages 127-9. Write down three details about the French Revolution:__________________________________________________________________________________
8. How did the French Revolution set the tone for Jewish nationalism that would come later?__________________________________________________________________________________
9. Emancipation offered a way out of the ghetto (hooray!), but it also led to some weakening of the community (boo-hoo!). Describe how these two opposite out-comes could come from emancipation:__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________10. How would you have dealt with this dilemma?__________________________________________________________________________________
JS 8, Israel Unit, p. 5Name ______________________
__________________________________________________________________________________Topic 2: Nationalism, Anti-semitism – Sarna and Krasner, pp. 144-148
Do Now: Open up to p. 145, where the authors explain nationalism. Define it in your own words: ____________________________________________________________________________
2. How did German nationalism create a polarization between Germans and Jews? (Describe the four examples given in the book in full sentences):a. ________________________________________________________________________________
3. When was the Dreyfus Affair?________________Describe what happened to Captain Alfred Dreyfus:__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________4. Why was the Dreyfus Affair such a significant turning point? [Clue what did E´mile Zola write across the front page of an important French newspaper?]__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________5. What impact did the Dreyfus Affair have on the young newspaper writer Theodore Herzl?http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Herzl.html
6. According to this website, what did Herzl do to launch the Zionist movement?__________________________________________________________________________________
Topic 3: Five Zionisms, the Hebrew Man, The Pioneer
Tuvia Book, 2004, For the Sake of Zion: Pride and Strength Through Knowledge (New York: Board of Jewish Education of Greater New York).1. Define Zionism in your own words:__________________________________________________________________________________
2. Go to Judah Halevi’s poem, “My heart is in the East” at this website: http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/6640/zion/essential.htmlApproximately when was the poem written?Quote at least two lines in the poem that express Zionist feelings:__________________________________________________________________________________
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3. Go to the Jewish Virtual Library and describe what happened at the First Zion-ist Congress:http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Zionism/First_Cong_&_Basel_Program.html__________________________________________________________________________________
4. Today there are Orthodox, Conservative, Reconstructionist, Reform and other kinds of Jews; in the 1800s, Jews heard a proposal for “Muscle Judaism.” http://www.jewishagency.org/JewishAgency/English/Jewish+Education/Compelling+Content/Eye+on+Is-rael/Sport+in+Israel/Reclaiming+the+Physical+Jew.htmWhose idea was this?__________________
What is “Muscle-Judaism?” and what is it in response to? __________________________________________________________________________________
How does “Muscle-Judaism” compare to the different Judaisms you know today?__________________________________________________________________________________
For each wave of aliyah, be ready to describe (a) when it took place, (b) the event or cause that precipitated the wave of migration, (c) special features of this wave of migration and (d) the result. In addition to Gevirtz, this website may be useful:http://www.jewishagency.org/historical-aliyah/content/28841
Aliyah Rishonah - Gevirtz, 171
Aliyah Bet - Gevirtz, 176-77
Aliyah Gimel - Gevirtz, 199-200
Aliyah Dalet - Gevirtz, 202
Aliyah Heh - Gevirtz, 211 (Gevirtz describes the immigration without calling it a wave of aliyah)
JS 8, Israel Unit, p. 9Name ______________________
Israel Topic 5: Dividing up the land: Europe has ideas of its own
A. You are about to undertake a new topic that will help you to make sense of the modern Middle East. This was a complicated time with a lot of competing inter-ests and you are charged now with trying to make sense of it all! Begin with these terms:
Dates for World War I: ______________________________________________________________
British Mandate over Palestine (see this useful website first):http://www.jewishagency.org/israel/content/34106__________________________________________________________________________________
B. Go to the Barnavi Atlas, pp. 202-203. You already know about the five waves of aliyah, but now that you see these three maps, what can you infer about com-peting interests based on the shades of color chosen by the mapmakers, the vague borders agreed upon by foreign diplomats, and by any other clues in the map about the borders and the countries?__________________________________________________________________________________
Deals in the Desert – The Hussein-McMahon Correspondence (1915)
A. Using these various websites, describe the Hussein-McMahon Correspondence (1915) and its implications for the Jewish and Palestinian people living in Ottoman Palestine. http://www.jewishagency.org/israel/content/34106
B. What are five key provisions of Hussein-McMahon Correspondence? 1_________________________________________________________________________________
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Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916)A. Using these websites, describe the Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916) and its im-plications for Jewish and Palestinian people in Ottoman Palestine. See Barnavi At-las, p. 202 for hard copy.
What are four of the most significant provisions of the Sykes-Picot Agreement? 1_________________________________________________________________________________
Arthur James Balfour, First Earl of BalfourBalfour Declaration, 1917:http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/mideast/balfour.htmhttp://www.zionism-israel.com/Balfour_Declaration_1917.htm
A. Summarize the Balfour Declaration from a Jewish point of view:__________________________________________________________________________________
B. Now respond to the Balfour Declaration from an Arab point of view: __________________________________________________________________________________
C. Who was Lord Balfour and why did he write the declaration?See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration_of_1917__________________________________________________________________________________
D. What problems do you think will arise from the Balfour Declaration?__________________________________________________________________________________
B. Let’s think about the geographic and strategic issues: What Middle Eastern historic, religious and natural resources were important to the Arab populations? __________________________________________________________________________________
Writing assignment: Choose one of the following assignments. You don't have to
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do each assignment; just choose one.
a) Write about the Balfour Declaration from the point of view of a Jewish person living in Palestine in the 1910s: *What about the Balfour Declaration makes you feel enthusiastic? *What about it makes you anxious?*How do you think the Arabs will respond to the Declaration?*What is most confusing about the wording of the Declaration? (for the text, go to this website:
b. Write a position paper from the British point of view:*Why does Great Britain want to have control over parts of the Middle East?*Why is it better for Great Britain if the Arabs don't have complete independence?*Is it better for the Jews if the British govern Palestine?
c. Write a position paper from an Arab point of view:*If the British control Arab land through the Sykes-Picot agreement, will it be good for the Arabs?*If the Balfour Declaration leads to a Jewish nation, how will that affect Arab life?
Israel Unit Topic 6: The Mandatory Period and a New State is Launched, 1948
Thinking about the map of the Middle East, what resources were important to the Arabs?__________________________________________________________________________________
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