HISTORY
HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST
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Question
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Palestine was to be shared by Arabs & Jews
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Peace treaties were signed by the Arabs
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People wanted to escape a future Holocaust
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People wanted to return to their ‘promised land’ and avoid persecution
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Detailed explanation-1: -The capital of Jewish America at the turn of the 20th century was New York’s Lower East Side. This densely packed district of tenements, factories, and docklands had long been a starting point for recent immigrants, and hundreds of thousands of the new arrivals from Eastern Europe settled there on arrival.
Detailed explanation-2: -As a result of persecution, expulsions and massacres carried out by the Crusaders, Jews gradually migrated to Central and Eastern Europe, settling in Poland, Lithuania, and Russia, where they found greater security and a renewal of prosperity.
Detailed explanation-3: -The first significant Jewish Diaspora was the result of the Babylonian Exile of 586 bce. After the Babylonians conquered the kingdom of Judah, part of the Jewish population was deported into slavery.
Detailed explanation-4: -This emigration peaked in 1990-1991, the last two years of the severe crisis that preceded the dissolution of the Soviet Union, when about 400, 000 Soviet Jews and their relatives left the USSR. Of these, 333, 000 (83%) went to Israel. Thus, in 1990, Israel again became the first destination of this migration movement.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Jewish diaspora-beginning in the 6th century BCE and escalating again in the 1st and 2nd centuries CE-had established Jewish communities throughout Western Asia, North Africa, and the Aegean, creating a world that was already familiar with Jews, their beliefs, and their customs.