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Bookmark or Share- The Diaspora - Jewish Virtual LibraryThe Jewish state comes to an end in 70 AD, when the Romans begin to actively drive Jews from the home they had lived in for over a millennium. But the Jewish Diaspora ("diaspora" ="dispersion, scattering") had begun long before the Romans had even dreamed of Judaea. When the Assyrians conquered Israel in 722, the Hebrew inhabitants were ...
- Diaspora | Definition, History, & Facts | BritannicaDiaspora, the dispersion of Jews among the Gentiles after the Babylonian Exile or the aggregate of Jewish communities scattered ‘in exile’ outside Palestine or present-day Israel. The term carries religious, philosophical, political, and eschatological connotations.
- Visual Timeline | The Story of the Jews | PBSVisual Timeline. Page through 3000 years of Jewish history, culture and experience featured in The Story of the Jews with Simon Schama.
- Diaspora, Jewish | Encyclopedia.comThe number of Jews of the Diaspora is estimated in the millions, possibly 8 to 10 per cent of the Roman Empire 's population. Influences on Judaism and Early Christianity. Jews of the Diaspora were much more open to Greek culture than the Palestinian Jews.
- Jewish Diaspora | Encyclopedia.comThe Jewish diaspora is said by classical scholars to have begun during the First Temple period, with the establishment of a community of Jewish mercenaries within the military outpost of Elephantine (Southern Egypt) and with the removal of Jewish captives from the conquered Hebrew kingdom of Israel by the Assyrians in 722 B.C.E.
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