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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.

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What was the importance of canaan to the history of the ancient hebrews?

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Historians and Archaeologists now believe that there never was a separate Hebrew Nation and that the Israelites were just a minor tribe of the Canaanite nation; even their language is similar.

How many others people were killed during the holocaust?

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Aside from the Jewish, Jehovah's Witnesses, Roma Gypsies, courageous resisters, other pastors and priest, homosexuals, the disabled and masons were executed by the Nazis. Prior to World War I, there were very few dark-skinned people of African descent in Germany. But, during World War I, black African soldiers were brought in by the French during the Allied occupation. Most of the Germans, who were very race conscious, despised the dark-skinned "invasion". Some of these black soldiers married white German women that bore children referred to as "Rhineland Bastards" or the "Black Disgrace". In Mein Kampf, Hitler said he would eliminate all the children born of African-German descent because he considered them an "insult" to the German nation. Many husbands and wives of Jews in Germany were forced to choose between divorce or concentration camps. Hitler would not allow "interracial" marriages. Those that chose to remain married were punished by imprisonment in camps where many died.

What is the result of zionism?

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The result was that the State of Israel was formed.

What places in the world is Judaism practiced?

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Judaism is practiced all over the world, because Jewish people live all over the world. There are active synagogues in places where many might not think Jews live. Jamaica, Spain, South Africa, New Zealand, Morocco, Russia, Iraq...and even Hong Kong are some countries that have Jewish populations.

The largest population of Jews tends to be Israel, USA, Canada, England and South America.

Interesting fact: Judaism is one of the world's major religions, while Jews are one of the world's minorities. Go figure :)

What is the Zionist movement and what was its main goal?

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Who were the Zionists: The Zionist leadership was ardently secularist with one or two critical exceptions. These leaders included Theodor Herzl (who developed the concept of Modern Jewish Nationalism or Zionism), Eliezer ben Yehuda (who developed the Modern Hebrew Language), Ze'ev Jabotinsky (Jewish Advocate to the British and Leader of the Palmach), Menachem Begin (Leader of the Irgun and future Israeli Prime Minister), and the Halutzim in general (the Jewish pioneers who arrived in the British Mandate of Palestine in the 1920s and 1930s). On the religious side, there was primarily Rabbi Avraham Kook (First Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Israel and founder of Religious Zionism) who was treading a new theological doctrine to back up Zionism with Jewish religious values.

What were the goals of the Zionists: 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.

What did a Jewish ghetto look like?

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The only architecturally intact ghetto in Europe is in Venice. It covers two islands, and when Jews were forced by law to live in the ghetto it was crowded and somewhat run down. The inhabitants built upwards from about 1630 onwards in order to make the best possible use of limited space. Ironically, the Venice ghetto has become a rather upmarket residential area in the last 30 years or so.

What were non-Jewish people from the Roman Empire called?

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Most Romans were non-Jews. The Jews were a very small people and a negligible portion of the population of an empire which was huge. It included western Europe up to southern Germany and parts of central Germany + the Balkan peninsula in eastern Europe + Turkey, Syria, Lebanon and a slice of Saudi Arabia + North Africa.

The population of the empire had been estimated at 60 millions, which in days when population levels were much lower than now, was massive.

What happened to the Jews in Europe after they were emancipated?

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if you are relating it to the Holocaust, when you say 'emancipated' do you mean when the German Jews had their citizenship restored, or do you mean the creation of Israel was their 'emancipation'?

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When used in connection with the Jews, emancipationgenerally refers specifically to the removal of civil disabilities from the time of the French Revolution on. In the German-speaking countries this includes the initial granting of citizenship (from 1812-1869) and the abolition (in the 1800s) of laws stating exactly what the Jews were allowed and not allowed to do and the abolition of special taxes and the like on Jews. (Compare with the use of the word emancipation in connection with other groups subject to civil disabilties).

If you mean emancipation in this sense, most Jews in Germany and Western Europe tried to assimilate to the society around them.

What happened to the Jews in 1948 CE?

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It depends on the Jews in question.

If you are referring to the Jews that were already in post-Mandatory Palestine, they were able to secure a state against the force of seven Arab armies. With strong will and persistence, they were able to compel each of the Arab leaders to sign an armistice with Israel. During the war, Israeli politicians got to putting the Basic Laws and the Right of Return into effect, establishing a state that reflected their values and had a specific role for both secular and religious authority.

If you are referring to the Jews of Europe, the overwhelming majority of the survivors of the Holocaust soon discovered that no country, even the ones in which they had formerly lived, wanted to take the Jews in. From 1945-1949, many Jews were stranded in Internment Camps across Europe, some only a few minutes away from the Concentration Camps (like Bergen-Belsen). These Jews petitioned for the right to migrate to Mandatory Palestine. Upon Israel's Declaration of Independence, they began to immigrate and many of them joined with the Jewish Militias in the war against the Arabs.

If you are referring to the Jews of the Arab World, the Arab-Israeli War of 1948 was a watershed moment which made life in the Arab World change from mildly intolerant to completely unsafe. Jews were accused by nearly every Arab government of conspiring with Israel (even though the majority of Jews from Arab Countries were Anti-Zionist or Non-Zionist prior to this point). In Iraq, there were show-trials and executions. In Jordan, all Jews were expelled from the country. From 1950-1952, Israel was required to absorb 500,000 Jews from Arab Countries (of the total 800-850,000 who fled). The Arab-Israeli War of 1948-9 completely uprooted their lives, although given the rough decade that the 1940s had been in the Arab World for Jews, it was not entirely unexpected.

If you are referring to the Jews of America, the realization that the American Jewish community was the dominant Diaspora Jewish Community in the wake of the Holocaust finally came to a head in this conflict. American Jews began to embrace and support the State of Israel, but also see themselves as the preservers of Jewish interests and Jewish sects which were exterminated to near or complete extinction in Europe. This was a fundamental shift for American Jewry as the community prior to the Holocaust had been seen as "the Jewish Frontier". The real Jews and traditional Jews were considered to be those of Europe, prior to their annihilation. Being the new center of the Diaspora changed American Jewish discourse and the way that American Jews embraced their religion, leading to an uptick in religiosity among American Jewry.

What is the origin of the star of david and its importance to the ancient hebrews?

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The Star of David (or Magen David) is a hexagram and was not unique to Judaism. In the Hellenistic world, hexagrams were used by all religions. In the Middle Ages, Jews, Christians and Muslims used them to ward off demons and fires.

In the fourteenth century, Jewish mystical texts began to use the hexagram image to represent the shield of God used to protect King David. The Star of David first appeared on a Jewish flag in Prague in 1527 when Enlightenment Jews needed a symbol, equivalent to the Christian cross, to represent Judaism.

When did the Romans expel the Jews from Judea?

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Roman Emperor Titus expelled the Jews from Judea in 70 CE.

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The Romans never expelled the Jews from Judea. Rather, they expelled them from Jerusalem only.

Why did the spanish Jews welcome the Muslin invasions?

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The ruling classes of Spain were descended from the Visigoths, who had adopted the Arian sect of Christianity. When the King of Spain converted to Catholicism, he intended to require the same of all his nobles. The nobles knew that under Islamic rule, they would have religious freedom, so welcomed the Muslims to Spain.

Zionism is the movement to create a state?

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Zionism is the call for Jews to freely live in their ancient homeland.

When the ancient Hebrews left Egypt making their way to the area known as present-day Israel what geographical obstacle did they have to cross?

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The Red Sea. In the Biblical story of Moses (Exodus chapter 14), he parts the sea to save the Hebrews from the Egyptians.

What is the land of the ancient Hebrews called?

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Canaan now is Israel, West Bank, Gaza Strip, Jordan, southern Lebanon and Syria

Why were the Jews massacred?

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Jewish people were killed during World War 2 because Hitler thought that they were beneath the German race. There were millions of Jewish people that were killed during this time.

Who killed all the Jews?

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It depends what is meant by the word "killed". If "killed" means "responsible for ordering or taking the life of", then the answer is certainly Adolf Hitler, who masterminded the Einsantzgruppen and the Final Solution as ideas and approved them, resulting in the death of 6 million Jews. Hitler, however, did not actually go out and physically murder Jews in large numbers, leaving that to his subordinates. The person who probably took the most Jewish lives by his own hand is the man who dumped the Zyklon B cartridges into the largest gas chamber at Auschwitz-Birkenau, who was a very "average" low-level worker in the camp.

What are four laws that applied to the Jews during the Nazi period?

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The most important were the so-called Nuremberg Laws of 1935. There were two of them, "The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour", and "The Reich Citizenship Law". The first defined when you were considered a Jew and forbade marriage and sexual relations between Jews and non-Jewish people. The second law took away all civic rights from Jews and prohibited them to hold any public office or Government employment and later, a number of other professions.

A third law was the "Law for the Protection of the Hereditary Health of the German People", aimed at further preventing any effort at a "mixed" marriage. A fourth was the "Namensänderungsverordnung" (Name Change Law) that forced Jews with only German first names to add another, typically Jewish first name that made them easily identifiable as Jews.

How did the ancient Hebrews escape from Egypt?

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Moses parted the waters of the Red Sea so the Jews could cross.

How did the Wall street crash lead to Hitler's power?

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Well, it certainly wasn't the only cause, but here's what happened.

After World War I, France (and other nations, but mainly France) got greedy. The French basically wanted to use the war as an excuse to destroy Germany (and therefore enhance France's power in Europe) by crippling it economically. Portions of German territory were seized by other nations, and Germany was saddled with a staggering debt for "war reparations".

The United States refused to sign the Treaty of Versailles (which contained these provisions) and had instead concluded a separate treaty with the Central Powers. The US was not interested in crippling Germany and in fact wanted Germany as a trading partner. In order to help Germany make the reparations payments with its weak economy after the war, the US loaned money to Germany.

Then came 1929 and the stock market crash. That ended the loans, and also dried up US markets for German goods, which was significant as the US was an important trading partner for Germany. US unemployment during the Great Depression was about 25%; German unemployment in the same period was around 33%.

Unemployed Germans, bitter about the terms of the Treaty of Versailles (which Germany had not even been allowed to participate in the negotiation of), were eager to follow anyone who promised a return to prosperity. The National Socialist Workers' Party did just that.

Is Kaj Goldberg Jewish?

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AnswerKaJ Goldberg, weather anchor and reporter for an ABC affiliate in Phoenix, Arizona, was born in Los Angeles, California. He is an United States citizen and his nationality is American. His ethnic heritage is Black and Swedish

What group contributed to spreading Jewish ideas by translating the Hebrew Bible into Greek?

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The Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) has had a vast influence on the Western world, in areas of belief, law, morals, and practices. For the most part, non-Jews didn't read Hebrew. It was through translations that the Tanakh found its way into the wider world. Its Greek translation was the first non-Hebrew text of the Tanakh (c.270 BCE). Since Greek was an international language for centuries, people had ready access to the Tanakh once it was available in Greek.

Why did most Jews not work on the Sabbath in the time of Jesus?

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In the Time of Jesus, ALL Jews did not work on the Sabbath because it was (and still is) the Jewish day of rest. Today ALL Orthodox and many non-Orthodox Jews will not work on the Sabbath. The Fourth Commandment is to keep the Sabbath Holy by not performing labors.

What are the conflicts between the Jews and the Gentiles?

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First, it is worth noting that there is no conflict, since a conflict requires two parties who are both trying to achieve contrary objectives and resorting to fighting in kind (oral vs. oral, militant vs. militant, etc.). As the Jews were not able to bring any such force to bear against the Gentiles, there can be no conflict, only subjugation or emancipation. The negative interactions between Jews and Gentiles are numerous throughout history. Most arise from cultural differences, real or perceived. The Gentiles have sought to extinguish the Jews many times.