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Jews (Hebrew: יְהוּדִים, ISO 259-2: Yehudim, Israeli pronunciation: [jehuˈdim]) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Hebrews or Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism. Jewish ethnicity, religion, and community are highly interrelated, as Judaism is an ethnic religion, although not all ethnic Jews practice it. Despite this, religious Jews regard individuals who have formally converted to Judaism as part of the community.The Jews trace their origins to the Israelites, a people that emerged from within the Canaanite population to establish the Iron Age kingdoms of Israel and Judah. Judaism emerged from Yahwism, the religion of the Israelites, by the late 6th century BCE, with a theology considered by religious Jews to be the expression of a covenant with God established with the Israelites, their ancestors. The Babylonian captivity of Judahites following their kingdom's destruction, the movement of Jewish groups around the Mediterranean in the Hellenistic period, and subsequent periods of conflict and violent dispersion, such as the Jewish–Roman wars, gave rise to the Jewish diaspora. The Jewish diaspora is a wide dispersion of Jewish communities across the world that have maintained their sense of Jewish history, identity and culture.In the following millennia, Jewish diaspora communities coalesced into three major ethnic subdivisions according to where their ancestors settled: the Ashkenazim (initially in Western Europe), the Sephardim (initially in the Iberian Peninsula), and the Mizrahim (Middle East and North Africa). While these three major divisions account for most of the world's Jews, there are other smaller Jewish groups that do not fit in any of those. Prior to World War II, the global Jewish population reached a peak of 16.7 million, representing around 0.7 percent of the world population at that time. During World War II, approximately 6 million Jews throughout Europe were systematically murdered by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. Since then, the population has slowly risen again, and as of 2021, was estimated to be at 15.2–19.9 million by the Berman Jewish DataBank, comprising less than 0.2 percent of the total world population. Today, over 85% of Jews live in Israel or the United States. Israel, whose population is 73.9% Jewish, is the only country where Jews comprise more than 2.5% of the population.Jews have significantly influenced and contributed to the development and growth of human progress in many fields, both historically and in modern times, including in science and technology, philosophy, ethics, literature, governance, business, art, music, comedy, theatre, cinema, architecture, food, medicine, and religion. Jews wrote the Bible, founded Christianity, and had an indirect but profound influence on Islam. In these ways, Jews have also played a significant role in the development of Western culture. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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Works about Jewish people 33
- The truth about The Protocols
- קרית ספר = Bibliotheca hebraica post-Mendelssohniana
- Brigitte Heidenhain: Juden in Wriezen
- Christoph Kühn: Jüdische Delinquenten in der Frühen Neuzeit
- German-speaking films as culture Islands
- Rebekka Denz: Bundistinnen
- Brigitte Heidenhain: Juden in Schwedt
- Eik Dödtmann: Exile or home? The immigration and integration of Polish Jews of 1968 in Israel
- Peretz Markish: For people and homeland
- Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World
- הונדערט יאר יידיש טעאטער אין רומעניע, 1976-1876
- If This Is a Man
- ნოეს შვილი
- The Talmud Unmasked
- The Jews and Modern Capitalism
- Aimée et Jaguar : eine Frauenliebe, Berlin 1943 (allemand)
- Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology
- Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492–1900
- Des jues de Nicole
- Kamienne drzewo płaczu: gminy żydowskie województwa gdańskiego, ich dzieje i zabytki
- Kadisz gdańskich kamieni: dzieje Trójmiejskiej gminy żydowskiej do roku 1943
- Zapomniani byli w mieście. Dzieje Żydów sopockich
- Żydzi znad Gdańskiej Zatoki
- Gdański Zakon Synów Przymierza: dzieje żydowskiego wolnomularstwa w Gdańsku i Sopocie, lata 1899–1938
- Jews and Leftist Politics: Judaism, Israel, Antisemitism, and Gender
- Ben Hur
- Les boutiques de cannelle
- Heidegger and the Jews
- Dream Askew / Dream Apart
- The Outliers
- Ulysse
- Ulysse 2
- Découverte du ciel
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