All nations of people have unique experiences and so all peoples are in some ways unique. The exile to Babylon certainly did not make the Jewish people especially unique, but the permission to return was probably unique in history. Only some of their contemporaries, also exiled by the Babylonians, were ever afforded this chance.
So the Return from the Babylonian Exile was the one great event in Jewish history that made them truly unique.
Moses A. Shulvass has written: 'The History of the Jewish People' -- subject(s): History, Jews 'he-Yehudim bi-Sefarad' -- subject(s): History, Jews 'History of the Jewish People Volume the Ea' 'Daten un khronik' -- subject(s): History, Mizrachi
Only Jews celebrate Channukah because it is a Jewish holiday that commemorates an event in Jewish history.
Religious Jews learn their history every single day.
Israel is the homeland of the Jewish people. It is the land that the Jews originally came from. Some Jews believe the land was promised to the Jews by God. Others believe a history of thousands of years binds the land to the people.
The question is backwards. Most of the world (99.7%) is not Jewish, so the question is not why most people are not Jews, but why a small percentage are. Judaism is a tribal religion that did not proselytize for much of its history. Therefore, most people who were not Jews never became Jews.
Judaism is the religion of Jewish people, or Jews. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Judaism is the religion of Jewish people, or Jews. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Jewish people.
Jewish people have participated in all sports, throughout history.
Marcia Leveson has written: 'People of the book' -- subject(s): Jews, History and criticism, History, Jewish fiction, South African fiction (English), Jews in literature
Suzanne D. Rutland has written: 'With one voice' -- subject(s): Ethnic relations, History, Jews, New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies 'Jewish life down under' -- subject(s): Jews, Ethnic relations, History 'Triumph of the Jewish spirit' -- subject(s): Charities, History, Jewish Communal Appeal (Darlinghurst, Sydney, N..S.W.), Jews 'The Jews in Australia' -- subject(s): Jews, Ethnic relations, History, OverDrive, Nonfiction, Sociology
Murray Jay Rosman has written: 'How Jewish is Jewish history?' -- subject(s): Historiography, Judaism, Jews 'The lords' Jews' -- subject(s): History, Economic conditions, Jews, Court Jews, Nobility, Ethnic relations
Yes, the Jews were persecuted horribly under the Czars. Please see the related article for the history.