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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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Dream Askew / Dream Apart
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The Outliers
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Jews and Leftist Politics: Judaism, Israel, Antisemitism, and Gender
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Heidegger and the Jews
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Eik Dödtmann: Exile or home? The immigration and integration of Polish Jews of 1968 in Israel
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Brigitte Heidenhain: Juden in Schwedt
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Rebekka Denz: Bundistinnen
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Christoph Kühn: Jüdische Delinquenten in der Frühen Neuzeit
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German-speaking films as culture Islands
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Brigitte Heidenhain: Juden in Wriezen
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L'Enfant de Noé
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Gdański Zakon Synów Przymierza: dzieje żydowskiego wolnomularstwa w Gdańsku i Sopocie, lata 1899–1938
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Zapomniani byli w mieście. Dzieje Żydów sopockich
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Żydzi znad Gdańskiej Zatoki
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Aimée et Jaguar : eine Frauenliebe, Berlin 1943 (allemand)
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Kadisz gdańskich kamieni: dzieje Trójmiejskiej gminy żydowskiej do roku 1943
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Kamienne drzewo płaczu: gminy żydowskie województwa gdańskiego, ich dzieje i zabytki
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Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology
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הונדערט יאר יידיש טעאטער אין רומעניע, 1976-1876
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If This Is a Man
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Peretz Markish: For people and homeland
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The truth about The Protocols
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The Jews and Modern Capitalism
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The Talmud Unmasked
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Des jues de Nicole
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קרית ספר = Bibliotheca hebraica post-Mendelssohniana
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Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World
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Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492–1900
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Ben Hur
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Les boutiques de cannelle
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Ulysse
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Ulysse 2
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