An insidious affair in France inspires a Jewish publisher to write the pamphlet that would spark a movement for a Jewish state in the Jewish homeland.

A devastating pogrom in the Russian Empire and reforms in the Galilee lead to the first large wave of Jewish emigration to the Promised Land in the 1880's.

In the midst of the world’s first international antisemitic incident, rabbinic voices are heard calling for a Jewish return to the Land.