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Pages in category "Jewish communists" The following 78 pages are in this category, out of 78 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Yakov Agarunov;
City was destroyed and most Jews were exterminated. Later rebuilt. Tauragnai: טאָראָגין Taragin Town survived. Telšiai: טעלז Telz 2,800 (1939) City survived, but most Jews were exterminated. Troškūnai: טראַשקון Trashkun City survived, but all Jews were exterminated. Tryškiai: טרישיק Trishik Town survived. Ukmergė
Until the Holocaust, Jews were a significant part of the population of Eastern Europe. Outside Poland , the largest population was in the European part of the USSR , especially Ukraine (1.5 million in the 1930s), but major populations also existed in Hungary , Romania , and Czechoslovakia .
The first Jewish population in the region to be later known as Germany came with the Romans to the city now known as Cologne. A "Golden Age" in the first millennium saw the emergence of the Ashkenazi Jews, while the persecution and expulsion that followed the Crusades led to the creation of Yiddish and an overall shift eastwards.
Jews have had a significant presence in European cities and countries since the fall of the Roman Empire, including Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, and Russia. In Spain and Portugal in the late fifteenth century, the monarchies forced Jews to either convert to Christianity or leave and they established offices ...
Scottish Jews have also emigrated in large numbers to England, the United States, Israel, Canada, Australia and New Zealand for economic reasons, as other Scots have done. According to the 2001 census, 6,448 Jews lived in Scotland, [28] According to the 2011 census, 5,887 Jews lived in Scotland; a decline of 8.7% from 2001.
The Jewish communities of the cities of Mainz, Speyer and Worms became the center of Jewish life during medieval times. "This was a golden age as area bishops protected the Jews, resulting in increased trade and prosperity." [5] The First Crusade began an era of persecution of Jews in Germany. [6]
The most notable Jewish partisan group is the Bielski partisans, whom the movie Defiance portrays, and the Parczew partisans in the forests near Lublin. Hundreds of Jews escaped the ghettoes and joined the Partisan resistance groups. [2] Some Jews liberated from the Gęsiówka concentration camp participated in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising.