In the following year her father undertook to give a course in Hebrew theology to Johns Hopkins students, and this brought to the Szold house a group of bright young Jews who had come to Baltimore to study, and who enjoyed being fed and mothered by Mamma and entertained by Henrietta and Rachel, who played and sang for them in the upstairs sitting room on Sunday evenings.

The colony had been small until the Spanish Inquisition of 1492 drove many Jews into Rome.

Few of the native Jews who had lived in Lublin were still in the ghetto.

Dylan Thomas's verse had to find endurance in a world of burning cities and burning Jews.

In other words, the promulgators of the murder plan made clear that physically exterminating the Jews was but an extension of the anti-Semitic measures already operating in every phase of German life, and that the new conspiracy counted on the general anti-Semitism that had made those measures effective, as a readiness for murder.

No doubt many of the citizens of the Third Reich had conceived their anti-Semitism as an `` innocent '' dislike of Jews, as do others like them today.

It is already difficult to recall how little we knew before the Trial of what had been done to the Jews of Europe.

According to the Talmud, Amram promulgated the laws of marriage and divorce amongst the Jews in Egypt ; the Talmud also argues that Amram had extreme longevity, which he used to ensure that doctrines were preserved through several generations.

Some believe that this appeal “ thereby shows Christian ’ s of Luke ’ s day both that their predecessors were innocent before the state and that Paul had no political quarrel with Rome ” but rather with the Jews who were accusing him.

The Samaritans of Samaria ( see map at Iudaea Province ), had their temple on Mount Gerizim, and along with some other differences, see Samaritanism, were in conflict with Jews of Judea and Galilee and other regions who had their Temple in Jerusalem and practiced Judaism.

* 1987 – The U. S. Department of Justice bars the Austrian President Kurt Waldheim from entering the United States, saying he had aided in the deportation and execution of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.

At this point in time, the area that is currently Afghanistan had a multi-religious population consisting of Hindus, Buddhists, Zoroastrians, Jews, and others.

Lord John Russell, the Whig leader who had succeeded Peel as Prime Minister and like Rothschild a member for the City of London, introduced a Jewish Disabilities Bill to amend the oath and permit Jews to enter Parliament.

" While Disraeli did not argue that the Jews did the Christians a favour by killing Christ, as he had in Tancred and would in Lord George Bentinck, his speech was badly received by his own party, which along with the Anglican establishment was hostile to the bill.

Bernard Lewis states that the Muslim laity and Islamic authorities have always had great difficulty in accommodating post-Islamic monotheistic religions such as the Bahá ' í Faith, since the followers of such religions cannot be dismissed either as benighted heathens, like the polytheists of Asia and the animists of Africa, nor as outdated precursors, like the Jews and Christians.

Nehemiah appoints officials and sets guards on the wall and gates ; he plans to register the Jews, and finds the Census of those who had returned earlier.

The Jews, or at least some of them, returned to Jerusalem, and by 515 BCE had rebuilt the Temple.

The return, however, was not without problems of its own: the returnees found themselves in conflict with those Jews who had remained in the country and who now owned the land, and there were further conflicts over the form of government that should be set up.

The Book of Haggai was written in 520 BCE some 18 years after Cyrus had conquered Babylon and issued a decree in 538 BCE allowing the captive Jews to return to Judea.

White emigres who had returned due to pledges of amnesty were also sent directly to the Gulag, as were Jews from the Anti-Fascist Committee and other organizations.

::... explained his aspirations as to the repatriation of the Jews to the sacred land they had made famous.

The guilds, asserting that the Jews were responsible — several had been tortured and confessed — demanded they be executed, which the Council did in January 1349, except for a few who escaped to Alsace.

Impressive as this enumeration is, it barely hints at the diverse perceptions of Jews, collectively or individually, that have been attested by their Gentile environment.

It is reasonable to affirm two propositions: Jews have been perceived by non-Jews as all things to all men ; ;

some Jews have in fact been all things to all men.

In the arena of power Jews have at one time or another been somebody's ally ; ;

In the market place Jews have in fact under various circumstances been valued customers and suppliers, or clannish monopolists and cutthroat competitors.

The Jews for 2500 years have been a prime example, though the adherents of any world or interpeople religion are cases in point.

At the port city of Jaffa ( today part of Tel Aviv ) an outcrop of rocks near the harbour has been associated with the place of Andromeda's chaining and rescue by the traveler Pausanias, the geographer Strabo and the historian of the Jews Josephus.

Parallels between Acts and Josephus ' The Wars of the Jews ( written in 75-80 ) and Antiquities of the Jews ( c. 94 ) have long been argued.

The final chapter of Acts ends with Paul condemning non-Christian Jews and saying " Therefore I want you to know that God's salvation has been sent to the Gentiles, and they will listen!

A Jewish community is believed to have been established in Aegina " at the end of the second and during the third century AD " by Jews fleeing the Barbarian Invasions of the time in Greece.

Historically, these claims — alongside those of well poisoning and host desecration — have been a major theme in European persecution of Jews.

Altogether, there have been about 150 recorded cases of blood libel ( not to mention thousands of rumors ) that resulted in the arrest and killing of Jews throughout history, most of them in the Middle Ages ...

However, the Jews at Jesus ' time were actually speaking Aramaic, in which language there would not have been a double meaning.

The use of the definite article before the word " Christ " and its gradual development into a proper name show the Christians identified the bearer with the promised Messiah of the Jews who fulfilled all the Messianic predictions in a fuller and a higher sense than had been given them by the Rabbis.

At the time in Roman Judaea the Jews had been awaiting the " messiah ".

In the second century Christianity was criticized by the Jews on a various grounds, e. g. that the prophecies of the Hebrew Bible could not have been fulfilled by Jesus, given that he did not have a successful life.

At the end, the population which had not been able to escape, was deported to Edirne, Bursa and other Ottoman cities, leaving the city deserted except for the Jews of Balat and the Genoese of Pera.

The early history of the synagogue is obscure, but it seems to be an institution developed for public Jewish worship during the Babylonian captivity when the Jews ( and Jewish Proselytes ) did not have access to a Temple ( the First Temple having been destroyed c. 586 BC ) for ritual sacrifice.

Antisemitism has been described as primarily hatred against Jews as a race with its modern expression rooted in 19th century racial theories, while anti-Judaism is described as hostility to Jewish religion, but in Western Christianity it effectively merged into antisemitism during the 12th century.