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Explore an overlooked moment in pre-WWI Palestine when people's identities overlapped, and Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities intermingled freely. Few could contemplate the conflict that would engulf their region for the next century.

After the first immigrants settled, a second wave aspired to connect with the land.
Examine seeds of the Middle East conflict, sown in pre-WWI Ottoman Palestine.
From 1882 to 1903, unrest in Russia leads to the emigration of 2 million Jews.
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Fresh insight into the dramatic events that led to a century of unrest.
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The Zionist movement began using a slogan with lasting implications.
Jews began to see the importance of buying land and establishing clustered settlements.
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