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Second century. [] 115–117. Thousands of Jews are killed during civil unrest in Egypt, Cyprus, and Cyrenaica, as recounted by Cassius Dio. 119. Roman Emperor Hadrian bans circumcision, making Judaism de facto illegal. 132–135. Crushing of the Bar Kokhba revolt. According to Cassius Dio 580,000 Jews are killed.
t. e. The history of the Jews in Europe spans a period of over two thousand years. Jews, a Semitic people descending from the Judeans of Judea in the Southern Levant, [1][2][3][4] began migrating to Europe just before the rise of the Roman Empire (27 BC). Although Alexandrian Jews had already migrated to Rome, and with few Gentiles undergone ...
The ancient Jewish philosopher Philo gives the number of Jewish inhabitants in Egypt as one million, one-eighth of the population. Alexandria was by far the most important of the Egyptian Jewish communities. The Jews in the Egyptian diaspora were on a par with their Ptolemaic counterparts and close ties existed for them with Jerusalem.
Jews in the Middle East were also affected by the Holocaust. Most of North Africa came under Nazi control and many Jews were discriminated against and used as slaves until the Axis defeat. [203] In 1945, hundreds of Jews were injured during violent demonstrations in Egypt and Jewish property was vandalized
The government helped with funds to rebuild it, but it was again burnt down in 1952, and eventually passed into Egyptian control. Amidst the violence, many Egyptian Jews emigrated abroad. By 1950, nearly 40% of Egypt's Jewish population had emigrated. [64] About 14,000 of them went to Israel, and the rest to other countries.
Relations between Nazi Germany (1933–1945) and the Arab world ranged from indifference and confrontation to collaboration. [1][2][3] Nazi Germany used collaborators and propaganda throughout the Arab world in search of alliance for their political goals. [4][5] One foundation of such collaborations was the antisemitism of the Nazis, which was ...
Names of the Holocaust vary based on context. "The Holocaust" is the name commonly applied in English since the mid-1940s to the systematic extermination of six million Jews by Nazi Germany during World War II. The term is sometimes used in a broader sense to include the Nazi Party 's systematic murder of millions of people in other groups they ...
Berber Jews of the Atlas Mountains, c. 1900. The most ancient communities of African Jews are the Ethiopian, West African Jews, Sephardi Jews, and Mizrahi Jews of North Africa and the Horn of Africa. In the seventh century, many Spanish Jews fled from the persecution which was occurring under the rule of the Visigoths and migrated to North ...