OYE VEY!
This is the most dramatard wikipedia opening lines I have ever seen.
Opening sentence:
Jewish population centers have shifted tremendously over time, due to the constant streams of Jewish refugees created by expulsions, persecution, and officially sanctioned killing of Jews in various places at various times.
Second Para:
The 20th century saw a large shift in Jewish populations, as a result of large-scale migration to the Americas and Palestine due to pogroms in the Russian Empire followed by the Holocaust. The independence of Israel sparked mass emigrations and expulsions of Jews from the Arab world.
Ancient times section opening sentence:
The Torah contains a number of statements as to the number of (adult, male) Hebrews that left Egypt
hmmmm I am starting to notice a theme here
Same para:
The number of exiles who returned from Babylon is given at 42,360.
Same Para:
Tacitus declares that Jerusalem at its fall contained 600,000 persons; Josephus, that there were as many as 1,100,000 slain in the destruction of Jerusalem in CE 70, along with 97,000 who were sold as slaves.
Next para opening:
In the Bar Kokhba revolt of 132–135 CE, 580,000 Jews were slain, according to Cassius Dio (lxix. 14).
Next Para opening:
By the first century, the Jewish community in Babylonia, to which Jews were exiled after the Babylonian conquest as well as after the Bar Kokhba rebellion in 135 CE,
Hmmmm maybe things work out better in the middle ages section.
Middle ages section:
1st para nobody is getting exiled or killed. Wow middle ages were a better time for the Jews
2nd para opening:
The Middle Ages were mainly a period of expulsions
Nevermind
The rest of middle ages is more of jews getting killed and expelled every para. Sometimes multiple times in one para
Let's check in on the modern day:
Whew. First para going good for the Jews.
new record second para has no mention of dead or exiled jews either
Third para:
Assuming that those numbers are reasonable, the increase in the next few centuries was remarkably rapid. It was checked in Germany by the laws limiting the number of Jews in special towns,
That's an improvement. No more exiles at least.
4th para nothing bad happens
5th para:
Jacobs in the Jewish Encyclopedia presents some evidence that Jewish increase in this period may have exceeded that of the general population, but remarks also that such figures of increase are often very deceptive, as they may indicate not the natural increase by surplus of births over deaths, but accession by immigration.
Key part:
but remarks also that such figures of increase are often very deceptive, as they may indicate not the natural increase by surplus of births over deaths, but accession by immigration.
Hmmmm
forcible measures were taken to prevent Russian Jews from settling in Germany
Aaaannnd we are back!
After this is the holocaust and you all know Jewish history from that point.
Holy frick though I used to think that whole Jewish Exile and historically a bad time to be a jew was a meme. Boy was I wrong.
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