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History of Judaism
The History of Judaism is the history of the Jewish people, their religion and culture, tracing back to the Biblical patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob of the 18th c. BCE. The earliest mention of Israel as a people was discovered in an inscription on the Merneptah Stele from the 1200s BCE.
1,396 Questions
What number of the world population is Jewish?
about 0.23%
This is a difficult question to answer, it really depends who you class as a Jew.
according to the halakha a person's Jewishness is determined on the maternal side. although some people who are Jewish on their paternal side might concider themselves Jewish.
according to some statistics there are about 13 million Jews around the world as opposed to the proposed 17-18 million before world war II
which makes the percent of Jews around 0.2-0.18
Where do Zionists go to worship?
Answer 1
Zionism is not a religion, but rather a movement that uses religion to assert claims on the land now known as Israel, and possibly also land in the Palestinian Territories. As Jews, they worship the Jewish God, although it is quite possible that some Zionists are secular Jews, who have no real religious beliefs.
Answer 2
Zionism is a nationalist movement as opposed to a religion or religious movement. It derives from the ethnic nature of the term "Jew" as opposed to the religious nature of the term "Jew". There are many Jewish supporters of Zionism, some of whom pray in synagogues and others who are entirely secular. There are also Christian Zionists who usually worship in churches. There are also Muslim Zionists who usually worship in mosques, but Islamic Zionism is usually taboo in most Muslim countries. Druze Zionists pray with other Druze, etc.
Zionism is not a religion.
Zionist are people who support Israel.
Most Zionists are Christians and Jews.
What problems did the Israelites face when they returned from Egypt to Canaan?
Answer 1
The Philistines had taken over. When the Israelites returned, the Philistines were stronger, had powerful cities, and knew how to make iron tools and weapons, according to the Hebrew bible.
Answer 2
When the Israelites returned to Canaan, they found other people living there (Philistines).
For Jews to live in our ancestral homeland in peace.
Zionism is the movement for the return of the Jewish people to their homeland and the resumption of Jewish sovereignty in Israel.To reclaim Jerusalem as their own.
Being a Zionist only means one thing: Believing that the Jews have a right to an independent State and that this State should be in the Land of Israel. Many people incorrectly believe that Zionism refers to the Anti-Semitic depictions of a worldwide Jewish Cabal or some other conspiracy theory. However, that is not what Zionism is.
After the Holocaust do the Germans still hate the Jews?
By and large, the answer is No. The Germans as a people underwent fundamental political changes in the late 1940s and 1950s. This required a mass re-education and atonement by Germans for the sins of the Nazi Government. As a result, today, Germans are keenly aware of the history of the Holocaust and, as a population are actively dealing with difficult questions of national idenity and Jew-hatred. Anti-Semitism is on the rise, however, in Eastern Europe more than in Germany and in Hungary in particular. These countries refuse to acknowledge their citizens' complicity with the Holocaust and are angry that Jews keep "pointing it out".
Why were the Jews blamed for losing World War 1?
The accusation was part of a wider conspiracy theory usually called the 'stab-in-the-back legend' which claimed that Germany had been defeated by subversives on the home front and had not been defeated on the battlefield. Many versions of this conspiracy theory are not specifically anti-Jewish. However, some hardline nationalists combined it with fanciful urban legends about "Judeo-Bolshevism". Please see the links below.
What caused Jews and Muslims to become enemies?
Answer 1
First of all, saying Jews and Muslims are enemies is like saying that all Americans and Mexicans are enemies. What about Mexican-Americans? Who is their enemy? The same thing goes for Jewish Arabs and Israeli Muslims. Who are they supposed to hate? Themselves? Sure a Jewish woman once tried to poison Muhammad. The poison didn't affect him. However, when Muhammad went to Yathrib (Medinah) the Jews praised him. They believed he was the last prophet. The reason the Jews stopped accepting him was because he wasn't an Israelite. That's when a rivalry began. But that has a small link to the Israel thing.
Answer 2
Mohammed originally described himself as a 'Jewish prophet'. The religion he was developing, which today we know as Islam, incorporated many aspects of Judaism within it. Some of the dietary laws are the same, for instance. Religious Jews pray three times a day - religious Muslims pray five times daily. There are many other similarities. But then Mohammed demanded that the Jews abandon their own faith and instead convert to Islam. Naturally, the Jews declined. At this point, Mohammed turned on them and this is the starting point of the enmity.
Judaism teaches that all religions are to be respected, and that all humans are equally God's children. And indeed, there are many instances of Jews and Muslims living and working together perfectly well. In fact, in general, Jews fared far better in Islamic countries than they did in Christian nations.
The dispute over land is more complex; bear in mind that Jerusalem is the holiest Jewish city. But for Muslims, it is the THIRD most holy city, because Mecca and Medina are their first two. Jews have always prayed facing Jerusalem, wherever they are in the world. Muslims pray facing Mecca and Jerusalem is not mentioned ONCE in the Quran, the Islamic holy text!
Answer 3
A lot of things contributed to the problem, but the central disagreement between them is over ownership of land. Religious people on each side believe that God gave them the land where they live. It is important to remember though, that in general, Jews and Moslems don't ALL believe that they are at war, or even have bad feelings toward the other religion. Most of the conflict is among people who are very different trying to live in close proximity in the Middle East. Some of them don't even believe in their religions... they just can't get along next to each other. Hatred like that exists whenever people don't try to understand each other, or start hating people just because they belong to a certain group even though they don't know them.
Answer 4
The answer to the question lies in the beginning of Islam and the original Jewish tribes that defied Muhammad's demand to convert to Islam. Because the Jewish tribes refused to convert and tried to assassinate Muhammad, the Jews became the object of Islamic hate.
Sura (5:59-60) - This verse begets the infamous belief on the part of some Muslims that Jews are descended from swine and apes, since it says that wicked Jews (at least) were transformed by Allah in the past.
The Qur'an also contains dozens of verses that specifically describe Jews in the ugliest, most hateful terms. These parts of the Qur'an are indistinguishable from hate literature.
There is nothing in Jewish literature or in the religion that promotes or directs hate towards any other religion. The Qur'an is believed by Muslims to be the word of God so as the Qur'an directs the Muslims to hate the Jews, the faithful follow the Qur'an's teaching.
What were the Jewish ghettos like?
the ghettos were horrific places where Nazis dumped Jew's; but not just Jews (which is commonly thought) but practically everyone who wasn't perfect (over exaggeration but....)
homosexuals, mentally or physically impaired, disabled, old, and Jews were put in the Ghettos. they were faced with terrible conditions where they were only fed an incredibly small fraction of what a human should eat to be healthy.
they were treated so badly, some died because of abuse, others died because of lack of nutrition or hygiene.
the ghettos were sort of a first step towards the death camps and the gassing.
incidentally, no one really cared about the people who were put in there; and if they did, they wouldn't say anything for fear that they would be put in there instead. as long as it wasn't them, they would deal with what was happening to others.
not that many people knew.
hope that helps a little; though I'm going on mostly memory but it IS right ... maybe just lacking some detail ^^
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I wonder if you are confusing ghettos with concentration camps.
Attack on jewish businesses homes and synagogues?
There have been so many. For facts on any single one, the question needs to be more specific.
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The best known single attack on the Jews by the Nazis was the Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass), 9-10 November 1938. Please see the related question.
How many countries is ANZAC Day celebrated in?
Australia and New Zealand both commemorate ANZAC Day. It is not so much a celebration as a commemoration, that is, a solemn remembering of those whose lives have been lost through war (particularly at Gallipoli).
What methods did Hitler use to make the Germans fear and hate Jews?
The Germans and their collaborators used to chief methods to exterminate European Jewry. The Germans and their fascist proxies used summary and mass executions across Europe to murder tens of thousands such as in Baba Yar and Odessa in 1941. The Germans also industrialized murder by using concentration camps to kills millions of Jews. Additionally the camps were used to exterminate Poles, Russians, Gypsies, homosexuals, politicals and others.
How many Jewish people lived in Paris?
Paris is the big community of Jewish people after America and Israel, the entire France has about 491000 people and Europe about 1 million.
Ghetto's were made in order to contain the Jewish population. The ghetto's were a stage of Hitler's final solution where he assessed the Jewish population before hailing them off to death camps.
What was life like in a Jewish ghetto?
Life was terrible. you were under Nazi rule. The Jews in the ghettos were completely dependent on the Nazis and the Judenrat (Jewish council) for food, water and medication. so many people died of starvation, thirst, and disease. It was always overcrowded. Fear of being murdered or deported was constant. Everyday more and more Jews were sent to death camps.
How long did Jews live in Germany?
The first Jews came to Germany 1150 years ago, at the very latest. Possibly earlier. It is known that Charlemagne brought (or invited) Jews to Germany; and we have the names of Rabbis in Germany 1100 years ago.
Why were only Jews persecuted during the Holocaust?
I just read a biography on this. The Jews weren`t the only ones killed. Jews, Russians,Poles, and Gypsies were also killed.
There were also Soviet POWs, Roma, disabled and mentally ill, gay men, Jehovah's Witnesses, and political opponents.
The reason all these people were killed was because of Adolf Hitler (who grew up hating mainly Jews), so one man's hatred was expanded due to his nazi politics and his influencial speeches (he was a good speaker). So he and the Nazi Party who emphasized nationalism and antisemitism ... sought to rid the world of those they hated.
The Nazis were above all a "hate party".
How were the Jews treated up to 1596?
Not particularly well, we know this because we do and life was just utterly terrible. Jews were spat upon and people didn't really life them for their so called 'Jewish' ways. My guess is that you're studying the merchant of venice, as it was written in 1596, so yeah shylock is a jew and isn't liked. He is mocked predominantly because he is fat..
Which countries did the Spanish Jews flee to?
Britain, Australia, Switzerland, Palestine just to name a few places.... ___ Once war began in 1939, international communications were severely affected. Most Jews who fled did so before the start of the war. For example, fleeing to Britain, Australia or Palestine in or after September was almost impossible. It was possible for some to reach the U.S. in particular in 1939-41.
Describe Nazi attitude toward Jews?
Taking this question seriously- Look at the death / concentration camps they set up for your answer, many millions of answers
The attitudes in history from Nazi, Germany to the Jews were as follows: Scapegoating, Torture and other brutal treatments due to a fear of enemies, Smear campaigns to exploit the ignorance and fear through a controlled mass media, Genocidal plans. Many of these took place as acts of Aggression, personal bias, and Lies.
What other types of people were killed in the Holocaust besides the Jewish people?
Gypsies, mentally and physically handicapped children, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and anyone else who denounced Hitler and this Nazi's. - Also Communists, Social Democrats and Soviet prisoners of war.
indirectly, Jews died on trains because of the conditions that the Nazis sujected them to.
How was Jewish Marriage affected in the Holocaust?
From September 1935, yes. Please see the related question.
Why wouldn't the Jews resist Jews?
The Nazis' military strength was overwhelming. Please also see the related question.
What was wine called in medieval times?
Wine was most commonly produced in monasteries, run by monks or even convents. The reason was because wine production requires a lot of grapes, and land was one thing the church had plenty of.
Where did the Zionists want to create a homeland for the Jews?
Zionists only want one thing: to be a free people in their own land (Israel). Zionism is the belief that the Jews have a right to a state in the historic homeland of the Jewish people. It is no different than German nationalism (which holds that Germans have a right to a state in the historic homeland of the German peoples) or Turkish nationalism (which holds that Turks have a right to a state in the historic lands of the Turkish people).
