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The history of the Jews in Alaska began before the Alaska Purchase in 1867. Jews from Imperial Russia lived there periodically as fur traders, and a Jewish community has existed since the 1880s. The Klondike and Nome gold rushes attracted Jews to Alaska to seek their fortunes as miners and businessmen and resulted in the first organized Jewish ...
Meir was the first female prime minister of Israel and the first woman to have headed a Middle Eastern state in modern times. [331] Gahal retained its 26 seats, and was the second largest party. In September 1970 King Hussein of Jordan drove the Palestine Liberation Organization out of his country. On 18 September 1970, Syrian tanks invaded ...
Alfred Edersheim Australian Jewish historian and Biblical scholar [citation needed] Victor Ehrenberg, German historian of the ancient world [2] Louis Eisenman, French historian of Europe [2] Abraham Eisenstadt, U.S. historian [2] Stanley Elkins, U.S. historian [2] Amos Elon, Vienna-born Israeli. Historian of Germany and modern Israel [citation ...
Kingdom of Israel (Samaria), c. 930–720 BCE [2] [dead link ] Kingdom of Judah, c. 930–587/586 BCE [3] [page needed] Yehud Medinata, c. 539–332 BCE [4] Hasmonean dynasty, c. 140–37 BCE [5] Herodian dynasty, 47 BCE – 100 CE; Judean provisional government, 66–68 CE; Bar Kokhba Jewish state, 132–135 CE; State of Israel, 1948 CE ...
But efforts in this direction ended, with the doctors' plot, the establishment of Israel as a Jewish state, and Stalin's second wave of purges shortly before his death. Again the Jewish leadership was arrested and efforts were made to stamp out Yiddish culture—even the Judaica collection in the local library was burned. In the ensuing years ...
In the centuries since the rise of Islam, many Jews living in the Muslim world were forced to convert to Islam, [citation needed] such as the Mashhadi Jews of Persia, who continued to practice Judaism in secret and eventually moved to Israel. Many of the Anusim's descendants left Judaism over the years.
The name "Israel" first appears in the Merneptah Stele c. 1208 BCE: "Israel is laid waste and his seed is no more." [25] This "Israel" was a cultural and probably political entity, well enough established for the Egyptians to perceive it as a possible challenge, but an ethnic group rather than an organized state. [26]
Patriarch Sophronius and Umar are reported to have agreed the Covenant of Umar I, which guaranteed non-Muslims freedom of religion, and under Islamic rule, for the first time since the Roman period, Jews were once again allowed to live and worship freely in Jerusalem. [51] Jerusalem becomes part of the Jund Filastin province of the Arab Caliphate.