The Balfour Declaration, Czechoslovakia's independence, and the interwar period, 1917–38

This chapter covers the two decades of the interwar period, with a specific focus on analogies made between two new “small nations” just emerging: the Czechoslovak “model democracy” and the Zionist political entity in the Jewish homeland, which was taking shape under the British Mandate of Palestine. A musical symbol of the alleged Czech–Zionist “special relationship” being formed at that time is a myth of the melody of the Zionist anthem Hatikva having been derived from the famous Czech orchestral piece Vltava [The Moldau].