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1 day ago · For example, the Jews in the shtetls of Poland and the Lower East Side of New York City during the early 20th century spoke Yiddish at most times, while assimilated Jews in 19th and early 20th-century Germany spoke German, and American-born Jews in the United States speak English.
1 day ago · It is generally believed by Christian scholars that in the first century, Jews in Judea primarily spoke Aramaic with a decreasing number using Hebrew as their first language, though many learned Hebrew as a liturgical language.
May 29, 2024 · Meanwhile, the Hebrews had their own seven-day week, which was already well-established in First Temple times, long centuries before it became so in the Roman empire. Its days did not, of course, have the names of pagan gods attached to them.
1 day ago · The rise of the second Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s, the antisemitic works of Henry Ford, and the radio speeches of Father Coughlin in the late 1930s indicated the intensity of attacks on the Jewish community. Antisemitism in the United States has rarely erupted into physical violence against Jews.
May 24, 2024 · In 586 BC, the Babylonian Empire captured Jerusalem and destroyed the Jewish temple, sending the Jewish people into their first exilic period. The Persian Empire defeated the Babylonian Empire in 538 BC, allowing the Jewish people to return from exile and rebuild their temple, thus beginning the Second Temple Period.
3 days ago · Since for some Jews the laws and customs passed down through oral traditions are part and parcel of God’s revelation to Moses and constitute the “oral Torah,” Torah is also understood to include both the Oral Law and the Written Law.
May 24, 2024 · Ranging from the mid-sixteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first, Jewish Emancipation tells the ongoing story of how Jews have gained, kept, lost, and recovered rights in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, the United States, and Israel.
