Napoleon Bonaparte’s Plans Concerning the Jew in the Middle East: Myth or Reality?

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Keywords: Jews; Ottoman Syria; Napoleon; Jewish Temple

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Soloduhina T. G. Napoleon Bonaparte’s Plans Concerning the Jew in the Middle East: Myth or Reality?. // Lomonosov Oriental Studies Journal. 2013. N 1, p.23–35

Soloduhina T. G.

Abstract

The article deals with the opinion of some Israeli scientists who believed that Napoleon had some plans connected with the Jews of Syro-Palestinian region. Basing on different sources the author comes to the conclusion that these plans existed only in the imagination of some contemporaries of these events. In that period the returning of the Jews to the Ottoman Syria, rebuilding of the Temple and the restoration of the Jewish state were impossible because of the political situation in the world.