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Where can I learn about Jewish Zealot ideology and history?
What are some great resources where I could learn more about the Jewish Zealots of the first century? I would like to learn more about their philosophy/ideology, their motivation, their contemporary ...
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Why was the "Cave of the Patriarchs" forbidden to Jews?
I just found out a tweet of Ben Shapiro stating the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron was closed to Jews for 700 years. I searched and didn't find any name but this article mentions that
In the ...
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Where to find reliable source about Palestinians leaving in 1948 (Nakba)? [closed]
I am pretty new to the topic and just finished A. Razak Abdel-Kader's Conflicts between Jews and Arabs, as one of my first books on the topic. He mentions more than 3/4 of Arabs left in 1948, who ...
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Did the Jews move from Palestine to Germany? [closed]
I have an essay to write and the question is simple.
Did the Jews first live in Palestine and then move to Germany? If they did move to Germany, why did they and did they return?
I just need to ...
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What happened to the stuff stolen from the Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans?
In the year 66 CE, the Jews in Roman Palestine rose up in revolt against the Roman occupation. Four years later , the Romans sacked Jerusalem, leveled the city, killed everyone inside, razed the ...
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How many Jewish refugee have been expelled out of Arab lands and when?
Were the Jews in Arab countries driven out after the Six Days War or in 1948 like some Palestinians in Israel? Did they lose their land?
I checked this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_refugees
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Did Arab policymakers have plans for the Jewish population, in case of victory in 1948 War?
Presumably the Arab goal in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war was to defeat Israel. Total victory would probably mean the total control of the whole Mandatory Palestine, which at this point already contained ...
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Was prostitution legal in the Kingdom of Israel during the reign of Solomon?
The wikipedia article is not clear:
Prostitution was common in ancient Israel, despite being tacitly
forbidden by Jewish Law.
What was the law forbidding prostitution? Given that prostitutes ...
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When was Jerusalem destroyed by the Babylonians?
When reading literature about the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem, I always wonder which year it took place. Some books say 586 B.CE. and some say 587 B.CE. Is this because we don't know? Or is ...
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What proportion of the Arab population of Palestine pre-1948 came from families that lived there before 1880?
It is known that the population of Palestine increased greatly between, say, 1880 and 1948. Apart from Jewish immigration there was also considerable Arab immigration (partly related to the economic ...
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Why were the British so reluctant to allow Jewish migration to Palestine?
Not sure if this is the correct forum to ask this, but I'm currently reading 'Exodus' by Leon Uris, and I'm curious as to why the British were so reluctant in letting Jewish people in Palestine.
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