The Zionists and the 19 29 Attacks

The riots that erupted across palestine in august ninet 29 were a watershed because of how they fit into each side's understanding of what was happening. The age of nationalism began in western europe before it arrived in eastern europe and the russian empire. And when the nationalist era arrived, both jews and the europeans surrounding them had some difficult problems to solve. When you're living as a minority in multi ethnic empire, say the austro hungarian or Russian empire, you don't have the same privileges as the ruling elite but at the same time, you're just one minority amongst many minorities. There's no real pressure to assimilate into the general life of the