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Geography of Judaism
Vignesh Murali
Haley Gordon
Tucker Hill
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TEST QUESTIONS:
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What conflicts are connected to
the religion of Judaism?
What are the major
denominations of Judaism?
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Origin
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Eastern region of
Canaan
Present day Israel
1st century C.E.
God made a
Covenant with
Abraham
Natural Environment Influence
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  Separation between
Jewish holiday of
Passover: (no bread, Ashkenazi and Sephardic
grains or risen
have growth 2 dialects of
product) Sephardic Hebrew:
Jews may eat rice on
  Yiddish is a dialect
Passover
between German and
Service on Rosh
Hebrew
Hashana: bread
  Ladino is a dialect using
crumbs into moving
Spanish and Hebrew
body of water,
different groups wave
chicken around head
3 times
Di-jew-sion
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722 B.C.- The Assyrians
conquered Israel.
Forced migration into
various parts of empire
597 and 586 B.C.Nebuchadnezzar of
Babylon deported Jews.
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Babylon and other parts
of the Middle East
Judaea
Egypt.
Di-jew-sion Continued
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Jewish State ends
around 70 A.D.
Romans
Africa, Asia, and
Europe.
The Holocaust
1939-45)
+6 Million killed
Jewish State 1948
Modern Di-jew-sion
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6
5
2
1
1
million
million
million
million
million
in
in
in
in
in
USA
Israel
Europe
Asia
Latin America
Denominations
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Orthodox Jews (traditional)- largest
200 and 700 A.D.
  Talmud
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Progressive Judaism (liberal and reform)
19th Century Europe
  adapts Judaism to contemporary living
  critical of Talmudic fundamentalism
  scientific research on the Bible.
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Conservative Judaism
American
  Cross between Orthodox and Reform
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Changes
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Assyrians settled in
Samaria
Superstitions
Worship Yahweh
Jewish acculturated to
Persian religion
procreation, agricultural,
and economic activities
Lost 10 tribes
Changes
After Babylonian Diaspora:
  Some left to Judea
  Babylonian Jews reconstructed religion
  Sacrifice
Meditation+Prayer
  Hereditary Priest
Rabbi (study and piety)
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Differences in Practices
In America, mainly Ashkenazi Conservative
  In Israel:
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Orthodox is only legally recognized movement
  50% Secular
  15%-20% Ultra-Orthodox
  Rest are traditionally observant
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Secular Jews of Israel observe some traditional
practices
  Rare among American Reform and secular
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Differences in Practices
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In the UK:
Mainly Reform
  Same prayer book as the American
Conservative
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Yiddish: Ashkenazi
  Never a part of Sephardic Culture
  Hebrew and English
  Russian, French, and Spanish
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Affect on the Cultural Landscapes
All western law can be partly traced to the Torah, especially the 10 Commandments. Today’s laws for women’s rights were originally maintained in Jewish culture. The emphasis on educa?on has long been held as the highest goal towards godliness. Excep?ng pigs, many foods that westerners abstain from directly result from Jewish kosher law. Conflict
 Holocaust:
Mass
targeting of Jewish
people
 Jews
against Muslims
in Palestine: Territory
Battle over Jerusalem
Judaism and Cultural Landscape
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Romans destroyed their
capital, Jerusalem, around A.D. 70.
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is no predominant design of
their synagogues, but all have an ark
containing the Five Books of Moses
known as the Torah.
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most symbolic landscape is the
Western Wall at the edge of the
temple mount in Jerusalem.
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Jewish faith has about 18
million adherents, but the
distribution of Jews proves that
Judaism is indeed a world religion.
A tradi?onal synagogue in Liver Pool A modern, LEED-­‐cer?fied, “green” synagogue (Illinois) Bibliography
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