RELIGST 2J03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: World Jewish Congress, Wield, Jewish Day School

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 2J03
• Professor: Cecilia Hudecki

Document Summary

Family plays a large part in the consciousness of jews: family in the broad sense, encompasses distant cousins. Judaism has fewer adherents to the religion in comparison to other religions. Halakhic definition of jews traditional law describes who is a jew: difficulty in counting number of jews because the definition of a jew has so many answers. Two main areas of jews (usa and then israel) and then france. Jewish population is predominantly urban, this trend carries on from after world war. English and hebrew are the two main languages to jews. 19th century, most jews lived in christian countries of europe or in muslims lands in. Ottoman empire (iran to bukhara: jews of north africa and middle east spoke arabic or spanish, jews of europe spoke form of german specific to jews referred to as yiddish. Russia kept its jews inside old frontiers pale of settlement. Warsaw had more jews than all of britain or france.