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The Zionist movement had coalesced in response to a need for a solution to the dilemmas of the 19th-century European Jewish Diaspora. The antidote was the establishment of a Jewish state. But the sabras (native Israelis) went beyond that. They viewed Jewish existence outside of the Land of Israel as doomed and abnormal.
Jewish Diaspora in China is a unique experience for world Jewry, as China is the only country in Far East that has had Jews living in its society for over 1,000 years. Documentary evidence shows that Jews started to live in China no later than the Tang Dynasty (618–907).
Nine in 10 Jews living in Germany speak Russian, and 15 percent of Israel's population was born in the USSR. With us is Zvi Gitelman, co-chair of the Davis Center's 2011 Conference on the Russian-Speaking Jewish Diaspora, and editor of the volume based on that conference, The New Jewish Diaspora: Russian-Speaking Immigrants in Israel, the ...
According to The Jewish Americans companion book, At the time of the American Revolution, more than a century after the first Jews arrived in New Amsterdam, the Jewish population likely numbered ...
A Jewish diaspora had migrated to Rome and to the territories of Roman Europe from the land of Israel, Anatolia, Babylon and Alexandria in response to economic hardship and incessant warfare over the land of Israel between the Ptolemaic and Seleucid empires from the 4th to the 1st centuries BCE. In Rome, Jewish communities thrived economically.
May 3, 2022 · This volume is unique in its global perspective in examining Jewish identity, Israel-diaspora relations. Brings together interrelated topics as well as global scholarly perspectives from Israel. Contextualizes connections between Israel and the diaspora in distinctive ways. Part of the book series: Studies of Jews in Society (SOJS, volume 3)
The Jewish diaspora ( Hebrew: תְּפוּצָה, romanized: təfūṣā) or exile (Hebrew: גָּלוּת gālūṯ; Yiddish: golus) is the dispersion of Israelites or Jews out of their ancient ancestral homeland (the Land of Israel) and their subsequent settlement in other parts of the globe. Map of the Jewish diaspora. Scene from Lachish ...
