The remarkable story of Zionism chronicles a people who, having been exiled from their homeland and suffered from prejudice and oppression for 2,000 years, maintained a strong identity, never losing faith with the dream of an eventual return home.
Examine how these ancient dreams took on new religious, cultural, national, and political dimensions that actualized into the Zionist Enterprise, culminating in the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, and the continued understanding of Zionism up to today, its relationship with the Jewish people in the Diaspora, and some of the contemporary challenges it faces.