The Hebrew Diaspora

By the year 1000 B.C.E the Jews had founded Israel as their national state (“Jews”). They actively practiced a very distinctive religion, Judaism. Israel was conquered several times and eventually came under the rule of the Roman Empire (“Jews”). During this time, Jews were legal citizens of the Empire. However, the Jews and Christians diverged quickly; the Jews were marginalized for being different and strange. They rejected the belief that Jesus is the Messiah and other christian laws. Eventually the Jewish revolt in 135 C.E. drove the Jews out of Jerusalem (“Jews”). They then lived throughout the Roman Empire and the materializing medieval states. They lived in their own communities called ghettos because they were not allowed to own land

For ages the Jewish population did not have a place to call home. They had been wandering around deserts, were once slaves in Egypt, but didn’t have any land to their name. Following the Holocaust, after many Jews had been persecuted by Hitler and the Nazis, a good portion of the overall amount of Jews in the world let alone Europe had been exterminated. As a result, Harry Truman and the UN suggested Israel, a homeland for the Jews. Tensions had been growing throughout the beginning of the 20th Century regarding the Palestinian area in the Middle East. This area was off to the side of Asia, near Africa. When the Jews and Arabs were offered part of this land, war broke out and still continues today. Even though a war happened as a result

Jewish immigrants have been treated very harshly, but somewhat “fair” in the 1800’s when Judaism became really popular. Jewish immigrants started migrating to different countries. Jews began migrating to America since 1820 all through today and still continuing, but in the 1600’s about 23 adult spanish-portuguese jews came to New Amsterdam where they had arrived. In 1655 more jews came from Holland. Nine years later, the British came and attempted to take over New York, but failed in the process of doing so . Although, making less than 1 percent of the population, they still made a pattern of Jewish life in America. They lived in the main port cities and had many leaders of the jewish religion who had impacted America positively. America then

One thing that stood out to me was how the rest of the World put a limitation on Jewish immigration when the Jewish refugees tried to escape from Hitler’s take over. In 1924, the United States passed the Johnson-Reed Act which restricted immigration based on national quotas. President Herbert Hoover went has far to bar the mentally disabled from coming into America. In 1936, an Arab general strike occurred to protest Jewish immigration. Recession and revolt meant a decline in immigration certificates, even for Jews in Europe. Due to this increased violence, the White Paper of May 1939 which put limitations on Jewish immigration to Palestine so that the Jews would never outnumber the Arabs. The Arabs were worried about the Jews taking over Palestine

With the Jewish expulsion from the land of Palestine, from the Romans. Their lives depended on endeavoring to survive in the land that they were coerced on. For some, assimilation was the only way to survive. It was either stay ostracized or assimilate and endeavor to become something. During the 18000s an incipient conception emerged from the Jewish people in many different counties. This conception came to what Zionism is, a way for the Jewish people to become a whole. Some Zionist vigorously repudiated the conception of assimilation to these countries. Some verbally expressed that assimilation is a slap to the Jewish people coerced out of the land of Palestine. While others verbally express living in the countries was like being ghost

Once the Hews got kicked out of their homeland shortly after Jesus died, they were forced to other countries, they were discriminated against in many ways and forced to feel like they were strangers. This means even though they had lived in that country for many years they still felt like strangers by the way they were treated. The Jews were mistreated in many ways. They were hated, misunderstood, patient, and boycotted for many years until they got back Israel. Anti-Semitism was one reasons Israel was created in 1948.

Immigrants of Hispanic and Jewish groups are a few of the many groups that immigrated to Washington. Hispanics immigrated from countries such as Mexico, Brazil, Columbia, Nicaragua, Chile and Argentina. The Jewish immigrants mostly came from Russia, Germany, Poland regions in Europe. They both came to Washington for same reasons, they wanted better job opportunities and to be able to participate in politics. As such they also brought their culture to Washington State.

Biblically, Jews in the City of Rome showed unpredictable tensions and riots against the civil government. “Roman Emperor, Claudius made an edict to expel the Jews from the City of Rome. Right after Claudius was assassinated, many Christian Jews moved back to Rome” (Maier, 1988, pg.355). Meanwhile, there were tensions in Judea. A growing compassion toward Zealots in Judea happened which encouraged the Roman Jews to rebel against the civil government.

The Jews were the most powerful culture back in the ancient times. This was a threat to others. The Hebrews had their own homeland before they became Jews. The homeland was the center of trade, commerce, and cultural exchanged, through the three major areas, Asia, Europe, and Africa. These areas were also a common place for conflict groups war with one another(rabbi,yaaca,2008).The Jews are to themselves and they do not push their beliefs on other people. They have been persecuted throughout history. The cities have been destroyed to the ground by hated armies, the temples have been tarnished to the ground several times, and have been put out by Jerusalem many times. The

During the late 1930s World War 2 was in process at the time. North America and its allies were unaware of the full extent of Hitler’s actions. Due to the anti-sematic feelings present in Canada at the time, many Jewish immigrants were denied entry into the country. Not until the late 1940’s that Canadians realized the extent of Hitler’s actions toward the Jewish population.

Diaspora: Jews amidst Greeks and Romans by Erich S. Gruen describes Jewish life during the Diaspora and the positive things that emerged from the period. Erich Gruen was a full-time professor at University of California at Berkeley, Harvard University, University of Colorado at Boulder, and Cornell University. Gruen has also done immense research about the classic antiquity era and has penned several books about Hellenism, Judaism in the classic world, and the Roman Republic period. Jews are often portrayed as suffering throughout this diasporic period. Gruen looks at this period with another approach. In this book, Gruen argues that even though the Jews struggled throughout the Mediterranean, the Diaspora was not only filled with suffering, but that it actually benefited Jews. Based on his research and use of primary sources throughout the text, it is safe to agree with Gruen when he sheds light on the situation and shows that it was a generally happy and prosperous time for Jews and that much good came from this four-hundred year span between Alexander the Great through the destruction of the Second Temple.

Now, the incredible Hebrew in the Americas in 1,000 B.C. In 1973 Dr. Joseph Mahan in

Imagine that you move to a new place where nobody is like you. Everyone sees your differences and hates you for it. They give you heavy taxes, make you live in a separate section of town and fabricate all kinds of lies about you. Judaism, the world’s first monotheistic religion, has been persecuted in many similar ways since its beginning to present day and yet, it still lives. The persecution began with the Romans, who burned down the Jews’ most sacred place and expelled them from their homeland, Israel. Since that time, Jews have been persecuted and expelled from many countries, leading to small Jewish communities in Eastern Europe and Spain. In fact, Judaism is so resilient that it survived the Holocaust, in which more than 6 million Jews were killed. To survive, Jewish communities have used many survival strategies. Although the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe and Spain both used the tactic of going to places they were protected to keep their religion alive, they also used tactics unique to their communities.

The destination of the Jewish dispersion varied especially based on the occupations of the Jews. The actual Diaspora really took place when thousands of Hebrew elites and craftsmen were deported and dispersed to Babylon. This occurred to concentrate the various skills of the Jewish in separate arenas and to use these individually skilled communities for the benefit of the Babylonians. For example, as previously mentioned the most skilled and elite Jews were dispersed to Babylon—the heart of the Babylonian empire. Thus, the better trained and more adept a Jew was, the more opportunity the Jew had to serve for empire in higher ranks solely to meet the needs of the empire and its rulers. This helped the empires exiling the Jews to prosper, but unfortunately created rifts and gaps within the Hebrew community. This pattern of dispersion, which was developed by the Babylonians and used by the Romans to scatter the Jews, allowed for these dominant empires to prosper, however, limited the interaction within the Hebrew community and resulted in the diminishing originality and novelty of the skilled Jews. Despite the use of the uniform dispersion pattern based on the occupations of the Jews, the reason why Jews were exiled and dispersed varied depending on the imposing empire of the time, which performed these actions.

Int the textbook, Consumer Behavior, acculturation is defined by the author as the learning of a new or foreign culture( Leon G, Schiffman & Joseph Wisenlit). The culture and values of the Hasidic Jewish people who live in Williamsburg ,Brooklyn I found to be contrary in comparison to mainstream American culture. I noticed that the men walked in a fast paced looked pale, had long beards, and were dressed identically in black hats and dark suits. the women wore wigs or scarves and restrained clothing. Otherwise, just about every woman under forty-five appeared to be pregnant. Many of the younger women looked as though they were the same age as my nineteen-year-old niece and were pushing carriages or strollers, Their stores had signs in Yiddish