Jews
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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JEWS from Judah , traditionally...has varied throughout history and has been a matter...8 million Jews in the world in 1990, with 8 million...the most important in world Jewry and its academies...ownership of land and most occupations other than petty trading...others found asylum in the Netherlands and in the Turkish possessions. The German Jews, who experienced...United States, which after 1939 was home to the largest...power in Germany, and 1945, when Germany was defeated in World War II, the Jews faced persecution...Holocaust ). After the war, great numbers of Jews...from the Arab-Israeli Wars of 1956, 1967, 1973...