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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The creation of agricultural communes in North America by a few hundred <\/span>Am Olamniks<\/span><\/i> from the Russian Empire was not unique in the Jewish world. Rather, it happened in parallel to another small, but important, agrarian movement. Friends and neighbors of the <\/span>Am Olamniks <\/span><\/i>from Odessa and other cities in the Russian Empire also charted new paths in response to pogroms during 1881-82 and the Tsar’s antisemitic May Laws that followed in1882. Among those responses, Zionism coalesced as a political movement and some of its activists formed the <\/span>Bilu <\/span><\/i>[Hebrew acronym for \u201cHouse of Jacob Come Ye and Let us Go Forth\u201d (Isaiah 2:5)] and <\/span>Hovavei Tsion<\/span><\/i> [Lovers of Zion] movements, led by luminaries like Moshe Leib Lilienblium, Y.L. Gordon and Leo Pinsker. In 1882, Pinsker published a foundational Zionist text, <\/span>Autoemancipation<\/span><\/i>. Like members of <\/span>Am Olam<\/span><\/i> in North America, the <\/span>Bilus <\/span><\/i>and Lovers of Zion believed that utopian agricultural settlement would lead to a better future for Jews.\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0From 1882 to 1884, the first few hundred Zionist pioneers founded six semi-cooperative agricultural communities (<\/span>moshavot<\/span><\/i>), most of which later evolved into modern cities like Rishon LeZion, Petakh Tikvah, Gedera, and Zikhron Yaacov. By 1903, there were 28 <\/span>moshavot<\/span><\/i> in Palestine. The physical hardships in Palestine at the time meant that many of the original <\/span>Bilus<\/span><\/i> returned to Russia and turnover in the <\/span>moshavot<\/span><\/i> was very high. But this idealistic wave of agricultural settlement launched what became Israel\u2019s farming miracle led by the kibbutz and moshav movements.<\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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