history of judaism

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    early days abraham

    1900 bce settled in canaan foundedthe hebrew race who all believed in one god
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    The exodus - moses

    1200 bce moses led the jews out of slavery
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    The kingdom of israel - saul

    1000 BCE united under one king. city of Jerusalem captured and became the centre of jewish faith
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    Invasions and conquests

    799 bce Assyrians conquered isreal, many jews scattered and lost their faith.
    587 bce babylonions conqured desroyed temple and captured jews period of the babylonians
    539 bce persiand conqured isreal
    168 bce antiochus iv of Syria
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    roman rule

    63 bce Romans conquered harsh rules made it very difficult to remain a jew
    66 ce jews revolted and romans left briefly
    70 ce titus destroyed the second temple and took jewish captives to rome. jews outlawed in jerusalem
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    Middle ages

    1100 crusades military expeditions to get rid of muslims sparked wave of hatred for non christians
    1492 expelled from spain under the inquistion which punnished all non christians
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    changes in traditional beliefs

    1600 beginning of people demanding freedom and equality for all
    1700 hasidism developed in western europe stressed kindness and joyful worship
    1800 growth of anti semitism writters attempted to prove that jews were inferior poland and russia abanded their policy of toleration of jews.thousands of jews killed in massacres. 2 million jews fled to usa and others to palestine

  • nazi persecution

    1914-1918 defeat of germany in world war 1. left german economy in ruins.
    1933 adolf hitler became into power
    1935 germans stripped jews of their citizenship sent jews to concentration camps and ghettoes seized property. many jews fled to other countries but immigration policies made this very difficult

  • The holocaust

    1935-1945 world war 11. nazis conqured almost all of eastern europe and most european hews came under nazi domination. orders from hitler to kill all jews. 6 million jews killed a third of the jewish population in concentration camps through mass extermination procedures of firing squads and gas chambers.

  • zionist movement

    many believed that they would be protected if they had an independent jewish nation in palestine this move was oppesed by the arabs who lived there
    on may 14 1948 the jews made their state isreal
    jews still face a constant threat from neighouring arabs