The major theorists of Labor Zionism had…
1906 CE
Zionism in its theoretical formulations only take practical effect with the coming to Palestine of the
Second Aliyah.
Between 1904 and 1914, approximately forty thousand Jews will immigrate to Palestine in response to the pogroms that follow the attempted Russian revolution of 1905.
By the end of the Second Aliyah, the Jewish population of Palestine will stand at about eighty-five thousand, or twelve percent of the total population.
The members of the Second Aliyah, unlike the settlers of the first, are dedicated socialists set on establishing Jewish settlement in Palestine along socialist lines.
They undertak a number of measures aimed at establishing an autonomous Jewish presence in Palestine, such as employing only Jewish labor, encouraging the widespread use of Hebrew, and forming the first Jewish self-defense organization, HaShomer (The Watchmen).
