RE100 Lecture Notes - Yiddish, Henotheism, Polytheism
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Judaism has been in americas since europeans have been in americas. As portugal and spanish jews expelled, they came to the americas to avoid the expulsion. Were part of colonization in new amsterdam (new york: largest city with jews now. Two main jewish ethnicities: sephardim went to north africa or stay in the middle east. Lidia language: ashkanazi went to northern europe (germany) Instead of maintaining strict jewish communities, they integrated: intermarriage. Ashkanazi coming from germany and other northern european. Reform movements continuing judaism as a separate religion but integrating. Ashkanazi from russia, romania, eastern northern europe. We had one of the lowest rates immigrant. Canada had a policy who were not willing to take jews they believed jews would disrupt population. After the holocaust, not until about 1946, they let the displaced persons to come to. Judaism is the earliest and oldest of the monotheistic developed in the middle east. When it starts to develop, it develops in polytheism.
