Example sentences for: zionism

How can you use “zionism” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The 19 th century Jewish intellectuals who conceived of Zionism --the idea that Jewish survival depends on the establishment of a Jewish state in the biblical land of Israel--never worked out their ideology's logistics.

  • In 1878 the first modern Jewish colony was founded at Rosh Pina, and in 1896 Theodore Herzl, the founder of the Zionism movement that called for the creation of a Jewish State in Palestine, published his sem­inal work, The Jewish State.

  • The intellectual guardians of Arab nationalist orthodoxy--Said, the Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani, Egyptian cultural leader Saad Eddin Wahbe, Egyptian editor and pundit Mohamed Heikal--have never accepted the fact of Israel; they cannot envision a world without the rallying cause of anti-Zionism.

  • Shulman aside, you could find one-line descriptions of Goodman's main characters in any half-dozen American-Jewish novels: the rabbi with two sons, one brilliant and prodigal, one duller but more loyal; the Holocaust survivor numbed by his past; the daughters tempted by the twin heresies of feminism and Zionism (Israel is viewed as a nation of faithless sinners by these ultra-Orthodox Jews); the assimilationist Jew who comes to a bad end.

  • The 25-page cover package celebrates "Zionism at 100."


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