History
| Old Yishuv |
| Jewish life in the Land of Israel before Modern Zionism |
| Key figures |
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| Joseph Nasi • Levi ben Jacob • Haim Abulafia • Yehuda he-Hasid Haim Farhi • Menachem Mendel • Jacob Saphir |
| Economy |
| Kollel • Halukka • Etrog |
| Communities |
| Musta'arabim • Sephardim • Perushim • Hasidim Read more about this topic: Haredim And Zionism Famous quotes containing the word history:“If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the sound and fury of a completely irrational history or to endow history with the form of human reason.” “The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony—periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.” “The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.” |