The Jewish People - A Story of Survival

The Jewish People: A Story of Survival
 2009

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJfxMWlI7fY
http://www.ovguide.com/movies_tv/the_jewish_people_a_story_of_survival.htm
http://www.amazon.com/Jewish-People-Survival-Martha-Teichner/dp/B001Q7JM3C

EXCERPTS:

"For millinnia  they've wandered the world,
almost never at home,
temporary inhabitants of foreign lands,

Their story has included enslavement in Egypt,
captivity in Babylon, exile from their land,
destruction of their capital city,
and sanctuaries anti-sementicism.
Indeed they could be gone,
but they're still here.


Abraham, 4000 years ago,
With his single God,
Abraham formed first major monotheistic religion.


It was in Canaan, God spoke to Abraham again,
OFFERING HIM A COVENANT.
If Abraham will circumcised himself,
and ensure his offspring will do the same,
his descendants will become the great nation.
Abraham accepted the offer.



The Israelite's sons were spared.
Moses instructed each Israelites household
 to mark its door with lambs blood,
 to let God know, which house to passover.


BESAKH in Hebrew
Passover in English.
because homes of the Israelite were passed over.


Beginning in the late 1960s
After the immense pressure by the Jewish people
around the world.
Hundreds of Thousands of Jews
fled the USSR,
in search of religious and social freedom
they had been denied by Soviets.


The Torah was later combined with other books
known as the prophets...


Some 200 years later in 10th Century BCE
Two successive kings, David, and then Solomon
would give them a nation, a capital city, and a temple.
At this time the Jews were living in 12 loosely affiliated tribes.

NAPHTALI
ASHER
ZEBULON
ISSACHAR
MANASSEH
GAD
EPHRAIM
DAN
BENJAMIN
JUDAH
REUBEN
SIMON


6th Century BC,
Babylonian destroyed Jerusalem, exiled countless israelites to Babylon.


539 BCE
Cyrus the great destroyed Babylon.
Persians allowed them to return home.


1st Century.
The Roman Empire.


Oral Traditions of Jews/ Tamar


Jews are allowed to survive actually
under the catholic christian law
...
there have to be Jews around
to witness the second coming of Christ.
Jews are preserves of Hebrew of Old Testament,
Their suffery is everlasting testimony to rejection of Jesus as Messiah.
Its both their preservation and debasement which proves
the truth of Christianity.


As Christianity continue to spread
another religion on Arabian Peninsula
was taking hold. Islam


But after the 1st century of Islam after Mohammad's death
The Islam has begun to spread from Southern France all the way to Pakistan.
Its that moment that Islam control over 80 to 90% Jewish population.



By the 9th century another Jewish migration taken place.
as they began from Mediterranean lands and near east
to France and Germany and other parts of nerhern and central Europe
encouraged by economic opportunity, and invitations from Christiane European leaders,
These Jews came to be known, ASHKENAZIM.


No matter how much Jews tried to maintain the distinctive communities,
they do live among the nations.
(Jews survived because they have adaptable.
Their children adapt the cultures of nations.)


ANTI-SEMITISM

CRUSADERS


New territories for Ashkenazim Jews:
Poland, Lithuania, Russia


THE PALE OF SETTLEMENT


Theodor Herzl
Father of Zionism
[lets go to home, Israel]


Eliezer Ben Yehuda
(Lets learn and speak Hebrew)



"Literally millions of Jew became interested an associated with Socialism"
"Communist Russia became the home for millions of Jews,
 though not exactly as they hoped. There was much antisemitism under soviet rule,
but the treatment of Jews under 2nd WW overshadowed everything."


Hitler wished to annihilate Jews.


"By the time of Germany's defeat 1945,
6 million Jews,
and estimated 1/3 of World's Jewish population,
and 2/3 or Europe's Jewish population,
had been systematically murdered.


State of Israel defined in political terms in 1948
and ratified by UN.

Israel became a new home for hundreds of thousands of Jews,
for post holocaust Europe,
...

after 1948 some 600,000  Jews either expelled or fleeing from Muslim and Arab countries,
to move to Israel,
There were other destination, huge number of Jews moved to US,
and many migrated to such countries, as France, Australia and Canada.
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