Jew
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August 20, 2022
Jews (Singular: Hebrew: יְהוּדִי Yehudi, Jewish; plural: Hebrew: יְהוּדִים Jehudim, Jews) or Jews; Jews are an ethnic, religious, and cultural group that originates from the Hebrew people. For Jews, Jewish ethnicity and religion are very closely related because Judaism is the traditional belief of the Jewish people. Converts to Judaism usually have an equal status in Jewish society with those who were born Jewish. In mainstream Judaism, conversion is not recommended and considered difficult. This mainly applies to marriages between Jews and non-Jews. According to the Bible, the Jewish people descended from Abraham, the patriarch of ancient Canaan. They migrated to Egypt in the time of Joseph and became a slave nation. After the Exodus, they settled again in Canaan and established the kingdom of Israel. Afterward, the area of Judah was ruled by Babylonia and Persia before entering the territory of the Roman Empire. Jews who migrated to Europe have been living with their identity for a long time without assimilation. Even in the Middle Ages, the majority were not assimilated and suffered discrimination, which led them to engage in finance, commerce, and trade, which were considered lowly or sinful, and on the contrary, it became an opportunity for Jews to accumulate capital. Discrimination persisted even in modern times, and at the end of the polarization of European politics, the Holocaust Holocaust led by Nazi Germany resulted in the death of a majority of European Jews and mass emigration to the United States, Britain, and Israel. The modern state of Israel was established as a Jewish state, and the Basic Law also defines itself as a Jewish state, so the Law of Repatriation authorizes all Jews who require Israeli citizenship to acquire citizenship. Currently, Israel is the only country where Jews make up the majority of the population.