How did the Jews get to Israel?

Answer 1

Jews migrated to the German states over a long period. In the Middle Ages, especially at the time of the crusades and the Black Death, Jews were expelled from many parts of Germany and were pushed eastwards - to Poland, which until about 1650 was very tolerant towards the Jews. Until the Nazi period there were a few Jewish farmers in Baden who claimed to have settled there in Roman times. (This claim cannot be verified, but it is clear that many of the families had been there for many centuries as farmers, despite expulsions - which were sometimes less thorough than at first appears). There were also some other areas and states that were reasonably tolerant, for example, Hamburg. A very large number of German Jews became inhabitants (and later citizens) of Prussia as a result of the partitions of Poland in 1772-1795. In 1812 Prussia granted something close to full citizenship to its Jewish population and acquired an international reputation for toleration. This attracted some inward migration.

Answer 2

Many German immigrants came to America when William Penn sold them farms in Pennsylvania. Many came to North Carolina when the Lords Proprietors sold them land. A number of them came as Mercenary Solders with the British Army during the Revolutionary War. When the British Army surrendered, the German Solders stayed. During and after the Napoleonic Wars, Germany suffered from civil wars. Many people fled to America, some with the clothes on their backs. Those who could afford it bought farms.

Katherine the Great induced many Germans to migrate to Russia. In spite of her promises, they were not well-treated. Many of them from the Ukraine and along the Volga, came to the US to avoid being conscripted into the Tsar's army and having to fight against their cousins in Germany.

Answer 3

Jews first settled in Europe in Roman times.

Answer 4

there were many ways of getting to Israel for jews: by shipping, running up from the holecost, an idealism for coming and build their country and more.

Answer 5

Depends when they tried to get there. Most Jews in Israel today were born there.

Answer 6

Nobody knows for sure, but there are some opinions that they went with the queen of Sheba in the time of King Solomon.