How did the Jews end up all over Europe before being put in concentration camps?
Posted: February 18th, 2011 | Author: Mitch | Filed under: Camp Sites | Tags: 1930s, Christianity, europe, holocaust, israel, jews, judaism, religion, romans, world war ii | 7 Comments »This has nothing to do with the holocaust…so like before the 1930s and stuff, how come there were a lot of Jews from Europe?
Like did people from Israel move to other parts of Europe and mixed into the people there?
OR did white people or other European people adopt and embrace Judaism as their religion? Kinda like how Romans adopted Christianity you know?
So im looking for an answer that has to do with like pre-world war ii
There were Jews in Rome at the time of Julius Caesar, which means that there were already exiles before the destruction of their Second Temple in 70 ad. Jews were scattered all over Europe during the Roman Empire, mainly in Spain, Greece and on the Rhine borders, where they founded communities and houses of learning. But there were also Jewish communities in Babylonia (Irak), and throughout the Moslem world, where they lasted until 1948, when the Arab mobs forced them to flee. As for Europe, the Crusaders killed many Jews in the Rhine countries, on their way to Holy Land, so many had to move eastward, where the Polish kings invited them to settle. That may explain why they were so numerous in Eastern Europe when the Nazis met and killed them.
The Roman empire kicked the Jews out of Israel and spread them across the Roman Empire.
When the Roman Empire collapsed and provinces became countries, some countries kicked Jews out, so Jews would move to a country that let them. And it basically went that way in Europe until the end of WW2.
For instance, Jews from Amsterdam came from Portugal to escape persecution there.
Jews have been persecuted since the beginning of time. The Holocaust was by no means the first time they faced violent persecution. The Jews moved around because of the persecution – they tried to build their own communities because they weren’t accepted by Christian Europeans. They moved for various reasons, just as we do – economic problems, to settle in a specific community, etc.
They are money-makers, bling blingers,
and by the way Israel and Iran is going to go all out war! BRO! Israel ain’t gonna last.
diaspora
There were always followers of Judaism in europe. Israel, as a Jewish nation, was created after world war 2.
At the beginning of the 16th century, Poland had the largest concentration of Jews in the world. Few or no Jews lived in most of the lands west of Poland, but this situation changed in the 17th century, when Jews began to migrate back to the German states and to eastern France. In 1654 England readmitted Jews. In addition, many of the Marranos, who secretly maintained some form of Jewish identity on the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal), were able to resume open commitments to Judaism in Holland, southern France, and the German city of Hamburg.
Basically, they have been circling the World for a long time.