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The French Assemblimen's Response to the French Nationalists
At the beginning of the nationalist era, most jews eagerly took up the french assemblimen on his offer to come out of the ghettos and start to work their way toward integrating into their respective nations. But when the era of full blooded nationalism was already rolling in western and central europe, eastern europe and russia were lagging far behind. Early zionism is driven by eastern european and russian jews who are fleeing a much more traditional jewish life. We've remarked before about the difference in attitude and approach between the eastern and western jews once they got to palestine. And so it was their prior experience that informed the shes response