Jews’ recent history of persecution surely has some influence on their attitudes and behavior, and how they’re perceived and treated. The mere fact that Jews are influenced in some way by their history does no
Today, the term “ghetto” inspires a negative connotation, often associated with low-income urban dwellings and the persecution of Jews in Central Europe by the Nazis. However, when an enclosed neighborhood was created for the Jews in Venice in 1516, “ghetto” referred to the foundry that th...
and tens of thousands of half- and quarter-Jews, as classified by the Nazis, served in the German Armed Forces during World War II. After examining assimilation records, birth rates, and mixed-marriage rates with mathematicians and statisticians, this study estimates...
Shalom Lappin With the apparent success of liberal democracy in the period immediately following the end of the Cold War, Jewish life in both America and Europe looked to be secure. Twenty years later the situation has changed radically. The collapse of the Camp David and Taba negotiations in...
Byline: Daniel A. Gross PaweA Bramson grew up in a white, Catholic country, and he liked it...Gross, Daniel A
They have not been allowed to have a stabile place of worship and have also faced persecution and atrocities that most of us can not even imagine. Three events that have had a big impact on the Jewish faith were the building and destruction of the First Great Temple, the Second Great ...
After Jesus was executed, he had to work hard to make Jesus the son of Jehovah because their personal safety was guaranteed only by exaggerating and promoting Jesus as the "son of Jehovah," inheriting Jewish nationalism. In order to justify "we are the same Jews in the same boat," Matthe...
Jews migrated to Texas to seek fortune and freedom. The earliest Jews, who arrived with the conquistadors, came from Sephardic (Spanish-North African-Israel) communities.8 After the Mexican period, Jewry in Texas was essentially populated by immigrants from Germany, eastern ...
Holocaust - Jewish Resistance, Nazi Oppression, Persecution: Jews fought back in multiple ways including staging uprisings (the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising) and fighting alongside other resistance groups. When the war ended there were over seven million displ