History of Judaism

Most of the scenes with Jews in showed persecution of Jews.

Because of famine (Genesis ch.46).

It was part of God's plan, since Egypt would be the "iron furnace" (Deuteronomy 4:20) in which the Israelites would be smelted, removing the dross, and would grow into a nation ready to receive God's Torah.

I hope this was asked in jest (even though it is not terribly funny) as this particular question, and questions in general about "how many Jews can fit in a small space", are quite offensive to many Jews who see it as an attempt at Holocaust math. (e.g. trying to prove that Holocaust couldn't happen because too few Jews could fit in a space or devaluing Jewish lives by counting them in degrading situations.)

Strictly speaking, Jews are of average European height, weight, and girth so the count should be the same between Jews and Europeans trying to fit in the same model of car.

Jews were relatively well-integrated in 19th century Germany, making it one of the most enlightened European States. However, pseudo-scientific-based Anti-Semitism was still rather prevalent and Jews were still seen as "somewhat" odd.

As far as I am aware, the premise of this question is incorrect. The Soviet Union was actually opposed to the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine until after World War II, which is when Israel became independent. The Soviet Union actually saw the British Mandate in Palestine as an attempt by the British to create a sphere of influence in the Middle East and by allowing Jews to settle there, the British would transplant a Western-leaning, and relatively wealthy population in the Middle East. This would be disadvantageous to Soviet interests in the region. As a result, Stalin created Birobidzian Autonomous Jewish Oblast in southeast Siberia to be Jewish homeland in the Soviet Union. Understandably, it was not that successful since it was nowhere near the Jewish population centers.

Soviet interests aligned with the Zionists in Palestine after World War II because it had become clear that the Zionists were furious with the British by this point, possibly severring that alliance (it did not actually sever, but it could have) and that Zionist Yishuv's economy had a strong socialist component which meant that Israel could join the Soviet sphere. By 1953, the Soviet Union decided that Israel was too Western and capitalist of a country to be part of the Soviet sphere.

The first king of the Hebrews was Saul. Then David, then Solomon.

Tzidkiyah.

The terms of "Bar Mitzvah" and "Bat Mitzvah", which is what the asker is driving at come from the idea that up until the point of Bar Mitzvah a boy is blameless for his sins and needs his parents to follow the commandments and atone for him. When a boy becomes Bar Mitzvah, he inherits the commandments and the direct responsibility for his actions. Since he is the youngest person in the room (i.e. no children are in the sanctuary) he is like a new son, the new generation. The concepts apply equally to Bat Mitzvah, but as girls are seen to mature more quickly than boys, the age of Bat Mitzvah is 12 while the age of Bar Mitzvah is 13.

Subjected to various forms of racial discrimination.

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The person who lead the hebrews out of slavery is Moses. He led them out of Egypt

The Israelites today are the Jewish people, who are the descendants of Jacob, who was renamed Israel (Genesis ch.35). We are called Jews from the name of Judah, son of Jacob (Genesis ch.29), since most of Jacob's other descendants (ten of the twelve Israelite tribes) went lost many centuries ago.

In 2000, the analysis of DNA studies by Nicholas Wade "provided genetic witness that Jewish communities have, to a remarkable extent, retained their biological identity separate from their host populations, evidence of relatively little intermarriage or conversion into Judaism over the centuries. The results accord with Jewish history and tradition."

Those who claim that the Israelites are actually some group other than the Jews, have zero genetic evidence to support their pronouncements. Similarly, the anti-Semitic "From the Khazars" claim has been debunked through DNA studies. A 2013 study of Ashkenazi mitochondrial DNA found no significant evidence of Khazar contribution to the Ashkenazi Jewish DNA, as would be predicted by the Khazar hypothesis.

Jews had a hatred for the samaritins , as they were considered outccasts and they had no dealings with them, as they used to do idol worship and many things against the laws of God and Moses.

They weren't treated humanely, or even humanly; that is the whole point. According to Nazi ideas, Jews, Gypsies and various others were "untermenschen", that is sub-human. Thus, according to the Nazis, those people could be eliminated. Simply kill them all so that Germans can have their land. It was no different from the way you would kill rats in your attic. They were simply "in the way" and had no more right to live than any other vermin. During the Holocaust Jews and Gypsies were not treated humanely. They were used for cruel experiments and were the Nazis answer for having their own way. The Nazis to me are cruel and cold-hearted people who were so focused on expanding their own land, as well as more money, that they laboured the poor prisoners to death.

I have MET someone who lived through the Holocaust and survived to tell of his horrors. I have TALKED to him. Not only me, my whole yeargroup has. He comes every year to talk about his experience. Do you really think it's all fake? I have read and heard from the "Old and Bold" that the Germans were relatively good "hosts" as far as British and American POWs were concerned. I have only ever met one man who was captured by the Japanese and his stories were horrific. German treatment of Russian prisoners was a lot worse than that of other Allied soldiers by all accounts. Treatment of POWs should not however be confused with the camps that were set up to carry out the "Final Solution" or extermination of Jews and gypsies and others. As pleasant as it would be to pretend this did not take place, as many have and will continue to do, this is unfortunately not the case. There have been attempts to ascribe the millions of dead and disappeared to Allied war damage and Zionist conspiracies, which is probably why a question as naive as this can be actually be posed. The Nazis not only conducted horrible experiments on Jews and Gypsies, but also on twins, triplets, homosexuals, etc. No human being should be treated this way. Who knows what these people had to endure behind closed doors? I shudder to think about it. Those who were used for experiments were often kept alive to be used for further experiments. You've seen the photographs of huge mass graves, piles of skeletal bodies, the photos of families with Stars of David pinned to their shirts, being marched out of their homes at gunpoint, the photos of Nazi soldiers pointing their rifles at mere children as they cried and begged for their lives. Go speak with one of the few surviving members of say, the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne - some of the people who helped to liberate people that were at these death camps. Try to ask THEM if the Holocaust never happened. I used to live in Germany and was fortunate enough (for a life-lesson to me) to visit Dachau. There were no movie theatres or swimming pools. There were however, ovens. Big ovens that were used to burn the remains of the people murdered. There was still the stench of burnt flesh emanating from the walls. This was in the mid-80's, some 40+ years after this was "over." I'm sorry this is so graphic, but apparently some people are still trying to somehow make that experience into some dumbed-down version of what really went on there. The birds, to that day, still did not fly anywhere near the remains of the camp. You can't dignify this question with a response. My Grandfather, a member of the British army, was involved in the liberation of Jews from concentration camps. He was traumatised by the way in which Jews and Gypsies were 'processed' in a 'production line' like manner. First being stripped of their families, then of their possessions, their dignity, their health, and finally of their life. And that was if they were lucky! As many of the other writers have stated, numerous Jews and Gypsies faced a far more traumatic, macabre fate.

Natural resources were not held in abundance by the ancient Hebrews. They settled in one of the least abundant areas of the world. They had the Jordan River and The Mediterranean Sea as resources. There was also fertile soil to the north.

They're best resource was actually the Torah. It's not a cliché; the Torah drove them forward to do amazing things with one of the poorest areas on Earth.

No the majority were afraid

The surname Cozens is of early medieval English and French origin. The name means son or relation of Cousin. In the Middle Ages, cousin had the general meaning "relative, kinsman". Alexander Cozens was a landscape painter in water-colours, who was born in Russia, and was reputed to be the son of Peter the Great.

The earliest date at which Jews arrived in Scotland is not known. It is possible that some arrived, or at least visited, as a result of the Roman Empire's conquest of southern Great Britain, but there is no direct evidence for this. What the Romans referred to as "Caledonia" was never integrated into the Empire, although there was a short-lived occupation of southern Scotland (and Roman influence and trade continued after the withdrawal of their troops). Most histories of Jews in Scotland deal with the subject matter from a British perspective, and the Scottish aspect tends to be marginalised.

The vast majority of Scottish Jews are Ashkenazi.

While England during the Middle Ages had state persecution of the Jews, culminating in the Edict of Expulsion of 1290 (Jews may have arrived in Scotland after this date) there was never a corresponding expulsion from Scotland. Indeed the eminent Jewish-Scottish scholar David Daiches states in his autobiographical Two Worlds: An Edinburgh Jewish Childhood that there are grounds for saying that Scotland is the only European country which has no history of state persecution of Jews. Evidence of Jews in medieval Scotland is fairly scanty, but in 1190, the Bishop of Glasgow forbade churchmen to "ledge their benefices for money borrowed from Jews". This was around the time of the Anti-Jewish riots in England so it is possible Jewish refugees lived in Scotland for a brief time, or it may refer to English Jews' interests in Scotland. Aberdeen and Dundee had close links to Baltic ports such as in Poland and Lithuania known as Scottish merchant trade routes. It is possible that Jewish people may have come to Scotland to trade with their Scottish counterparts

Like many Christian nations, medieval Scots believed themselves to have a Biblical connection. The Declaration of Arbroath (6 April 1320), which was sent as an appeal to Pope John XXII, confirmed Scotland's status as an independent, sovereign state and asserted its right to use military action when considered unjustly attacked. It was sealed by fifty-one magnates and nobles. It is still periodically referenced by British Israelitists. The text asserts that in the eyes of God:

cum non sit Pondus nec distinccio Judei et Greci, Scoti aut Anglici

("there is neither bias nor difference between Jew or Greek, Scot or English")

The first recorded Jew in Edinburgh was one David Brown in 1691, shortly before the Act of Union 1707, who made an application to reside and trade in the city.

No.

There is a particular type of ear-piercing called an "awl" that was used by the Israelites to mark slaves, but ornamental earrings that were used to show beauty and power were common among the nobility. (Earrings are still used in this way.)

Zionism has as its definition only one thing: the Jews should have an independent Jewish State.

Herzl explained quite well that the European concept of a nation-state was dependent on the idea that all of the people in any particular nation were of the same ethnic stock and heritage. Jews were branded by this system to be "the Other" and were regarded at best as possible equals and at worse as traitors, spies, thieves, and fifth columns. When the Dreyfus Affair turned out marches in Paris that said "Death to the Jews" on account of a kangaroo court against a particular guiltless Jew, it became clear that the Jew could not be integrated into Europe. After the Holocaust, the strongest proof that the Jew and the European Nation-State were irreconcilable, this view was strengthened.

Jews did not have such a place to return if the discrimination became intolerable. This is why the Jewish State is necessary. Since it came into existence it has accepted Jewish political refugees from over 50 nations and flown missions at its own expense to rescue Jews from at least 10 nations.

i know many articles about them: in the old "die welt" newspaper, on the internet and Herzl- the spirical leader of Jews wrote a book about it, because he was also a Jew.