| Jew A Jew (, Yehudi (sg.); , Yehudim (pl.); Ladino:Djudio (sg.); , Djudios (pl.); ; , Yidn (pl.)) is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group originating in the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East. The Jewish ethnicity, nationality, and religion are strongly interrelated, as Judaism is the traditional faith of the Jewish nation. Converts to Judaism have been absorbed into the Jewish people throughout the millennia. Jew
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| Zionism Zionism is the international political movement that originally supported the reestablishment of a homeland for the Jewish People in Palestine. The area was the Jewish Biblical homeland, called the Land of Israel (Hebrew:Eretz Yisra'el). Since the creation of Israel, the Zionist movement continues primarily as support for the modern state of Israel. Zionism
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| Goy (, regular plural or ) is a transliterated Hebrew word which translates as "cattle". Historically and up to modern times it is a synonym for Gentile or non-Jew. Goy
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| Timeline of Jewish history This is a timeline of the development of Jews and Judaism. All dates are given according to the Common Era, not the Hebrew calendar.See also Jewish history which includes links to individual country histories. For the history of persecution of Jews, see Antisemitism, History of antisemitism and Timeline of antisemitism. Timeline_of_Jewish_history
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| Zionism Talk:Zionism
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| Ahad Ha'am Asher Zvi Hirsch Ginsberg (18 August 1856 - 2 January 1927), primarily known by his Hebrew name and pen name, Ahad Ha'am, (, lit. one of the people, Genesis 26essayist, and one of the foremost pre-state Zionist thinkers. With his secular vision of a Jewish "spiritual center" in Palestine he confronted Theodor Herzl. Unlike Herzl, the founder of political Zionism, Ha'am strived for "a Jewish state and not merely a state of Jews." Ahad_Ha'am
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| Timeline of Jerusalem This is a partial timeline of major events in the History of Jerusalem: 1800 BCE The Jebusites build the wall Jebus (Jerusalem). 993 BCE King David attacks and captures Jerusalem. Jerusalem becomes City of David and capital of the United Kingdom of Israel. c. Timeline_of_Jerusalem
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| Ber Borochov Dov Ber Borochov (June 21, 1881 - December 17, 1917) was a Marxist Zionist and one of the founders of the Labor Zionist movement as well as a pioneer in the study of Yiddish as a language. He was born in the town of Zolotonosha, Ukraine, under the Russian Empire. Ber_Borochov
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| Jewish humour Jewish humour is the long tradition of humour in Judaism dating back to the Torah and the Midrash, but generally refers to the more recent stream of verbal, self-deprecating and often anecdotal humour originating in Eastern Europe and which took root in the United States over the last hundred years. Beginning with vaudeville, and continuing through radio, stand-up comedy, film, and television, a disproportionately high percentage of American and Russian comedians have been Jewish. Jewish_humour
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| Religious Zionism Religious Zionism, or the Religious Zionist Movement (a branch of which is also called Mizrachi) is an ideology that combines Zionism and religious Judaism, basing Zionism on the principles of Torah, Talmud et al. and authentic heritage. It is often combined with Modern Orthodox Judaism, although they are not synonymous, as the Hardal branch of Religious Zionism rejects that philosophy, and thus falls somewhere in between Haredi and Modern Orthodox. Religious_Zionism
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| Henrietta Szold Henrietta Szold (December 21, 1860 U.S. Jewish Zionist leader and founder of the Hadassah Women's Organization. Henrietta_Szold
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| Islam and other religions Talk:Islam_and_other_religions
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| Israel Isidor Elyashev Israel Isidor Elyashev (1873Jewish Neurologist and the first Yiddish literary critic. Sholem Rabinovich, better known as Sholem Aleichem, Mendele Mocher Sefarim, Isaac Leib Peretz and Nachum Sokolov; along with modern Hebrew writers including Chaim Nachman Bialik, and Sholem Asch, among several others.Dr. Elyashev was originally from Kaunas Lithuania. Israel_Isidor_Elyashev
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| Poale Zion Poale Zion (also spelled Poalei Tziyon or Poaley Syjon, meaning "Workers of Zion") was a Movement of Marxist Zionist Jewish workers circles founded in various cities of the Russian Empire about the turn of the century after the Bund rejected Zionism in 1901. Poale_Zion
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| Jews and Judaism in Europe Judaism in Europe has a long history, beginning in the Roman Empire period as Jews displaced after the Bar Kokhba revolt were dispersed throughout the Empire.The pre-World War II population of European Jews is estimated at close to 9 million (1.5%). About two thirds of these were killed in the Holocaust of 1940-1945. Jews_and_Judaism_in_Europe
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| World Zionist Organization Talk:World_Zionist_Organization
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| Haredim and Zionism Haredim and Zionism has always been a difficult one. Before the establishment of the State of Israel, the majority of Haredi Jewry was opposed to Zionism. However, after the de facto creation of the state, each individual movement within Orthodox Judaism charted its own path in their approach to the State of Israel. A study in late 2006 claimed that just over a third of Israelis considered Haredim the most hated group in Israel. Haredim_and_Zionism
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| Dohány Street Synagogue The Great Synagogue in Dohány Street, also known as Dohány Street Synagogue (, bet hakneset hagadol šel budapešt) or Tabakgasse Synagogue, is located in Erzsébetváros, the 7th district of Budapest. It is the largest synagogue in Eurasia and the second largest in the world, after the Temple Emanu-El. Dohány_Street_Synagogue
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| Theodor Herzl Theodor Herzl (, Binyamin Ze'ev Herzl, Hungarian; Herzl Tivadar) (May 2, 1860July 3, 1904) was an Austro-Hungarian journalist and the father of modern political Zionism.Herzl was born in Pest (today the eastern half of Budapest, Hungary) to a Jewish family originally from Zemun, the Kingdom of Hungary (today in Serbia). Theodor_Herzl
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| Great Synagogue of Vilna The Great Synagogue of Vilna which once stood at the end of Jewish Street (I-2), Vilna, Lithuania, was built between 1630-1633 after permission was granted to construct a synagogue from stone. Standing on the spot of an existing synagogue built in 1572, the site had first been used to house a Jewish house of prayer in 1440. Great_Synagogue_of_Vilna
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