1. Creation of Israel
Push or Pull
Reason
Explanation

2. The Creation of Israel

3. Copy the following words . . . (skip a few lines between each word)
Diaspora
Anti-Semitism
Pogrom
Holocaust
Promised Land
Zionism
Look for and record the meanings of these words throughout the presentation

4. The Movement of the Jewish People
Movement is one of the 5 themes of geography and deals with why people, ideas, and goods migrate
Push factors – bad things that make a person want to leave a place
Pull factors – good things that make a person want to come to a place

5. The Movement of the Jewish People
Decide which of the key words on your paper are push factors and which are pull factors
To the side of each key word, write “push” or “pull”

6. (ex. Babylonians, Mongols, Romans)
Jewish Diaspora
the forced scattering of Jewish people from their homeland by foreign invaders
(ex. Babylonians, Mongols, Romans)

7. Russia
Europe
“Promised Land
“Canaan”
“Palestine”
“Israel”

8. hatred, mistreatment, or discrimination against Jewish people
Anti-Semitism
hatred, mistreatment, or discrimination against Jewish people

9. Anti-Semitism

10. POGROMS
During the 1800s, Jews faced organized massacres particularly in Russia & Eastern Europe

11. POGROMS

12. Holocaust worst case of anti-Semitism
carried out by Hitler’s Nazi party in the s
Nazis adopted a policy of genocide, the purposeful and organized extermination of a group of people based on their race, religion, or culture.

13. Holocaust
gangs attacked & burned synagogues & Jewish business throughout Germany
Jewish hospitals, homes, schools & cemeteries were also vandalized

14. Holocaust Jews were arrested & placed in prisons called
concentration camps
slave labor, medical experiments, death

15. ZIONISM
an international movement for the creation of a Jewish community in Palestine
later supported the creation of the modern state of Israel

16. Why Zionism? ZION = “the Promised Land”
Torah says God promised the land of Israel to the descendants of the Jewish patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
Israel supposed to be a SAFE place for Jews

17. Theodor Herzl
Founder of Zionism

19. Push OR Pull?
Push factors – bad things that make a person want to leave a place
Pull factors – good things that make a person want to come to a place
Decide which of the key words on your paper are push factors and which are pull factors
To the side of each key word, write “push” or “pull”

20. Movement of the Jewish People
Push Factors
Anti-Semitism
Pogroms
Holocaust
Pull Factors
Promised Land
Zionism

21. If you were a Jewish person, which one of these factors would influence you the most? why? least? why?
Push Factors
Anti-Semitism
Pogroms
Holocaust
Pull Factors
Promised Land
Zionism

22. Move to the sign in the room with the factor that would MOST influence you as a Jewish person to move to Israel

23. Move to the sign in the room with the factor that would LEAST influence you as a Jewish person to move to Israel