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How to distinguish Jews

The methods of distinguishing Jews are: distinguishing according to appearance characteristics, distinguishing according to living habits, distinguishing according to household registration data, etc. 1, according to the appearance characteristics to distinguish. Jews have obvious characteristics, that is, black hair, black eyes, protruding from the middle of the nose, similar to aquiline nose, curly hair of wool, and generally not tall; 2. According to different living habits. Jews like to live in groups. They have certain Jewish settlements and religions, and they are not very integrated with the local mainstream society. Their clothes and living customs have their own characteristics. 3. Distinguish by household registration data. Jews usually go to church to register their information after birth, and some synagogues record the date of birth and personal information of each Jewish believer. So as long as we find the information preserved by the church, we can distinguish it.

The Jewish nation originated from a branch of Semite in ancient West Asia. In the middle of BC18th century, Jews moved to Canaan (formerly known as Palestine) under the leadership of their patriarch Abraham, and were called Hebrews, meaning "people on the other side of the river". Later, in order to avoid natural disasters, he moved to the eastern Nile Delta in Egypt, returned to Canaan at the end of13rd century BC, and formed a unified Hebrew kingdom in1th century BC. King David captured the city of Jebus (the ancient name of Jerusalem) and built his capital on Mount Zion in the south of the city. Since then, Jerusalem has become the capital of successive kingdoms. Therefore, Zion, also known as Jerusalem, has become a holy place for Judaism and Jews. The word Zionism (also known as Zionism) came from this.

The methods of distinguishing Jews are: distinguishing according to appearance characteristics, distinguishing according to living habits, distinguishing according to household registration data, etc.

1, according to the appearance characteristics to distinguish. Jews have obvious characteristics, that is, black hair, black eyes, protruding nose in the middle, similar to aquiline nose, curly wool, and generally not tall.

2. According to different living habits. Jews like to live in groups. They have certain Jewish settlements and religions, and they are not very integrated with the local mainstream society. Their clothes and customs have their own characteristics.

3. Distinguish by household registration data. Jews usually go to church to register their information after birth, and some synagogues record the date of birth and personal information of each Jewish believer. So as long as we find the information preserved by the church, we can distinguish it.

Jewish history

In 926 BC, the Hebrew Kingdom was divided into the Kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of Judea. 722 BC and 586 BC were destroyed by Assyrians and Babylonians respectively. In the following hundreds of years, Persians, Greeks and Romans successively conquered Palestinian land. In A.D. 135, after the Jewish uprising against the Romans was suppressed, it began to spread all over the world. Since the 7th century A.D., the residents in Palestinian areas have gradually been mainly Arabs. In the diaspora life of nearly 2000 years, Jews have been subjected to all kinds of discrimination and persecution from their countries of residence, and anti-Semitism and anti-Semitism activities reached their climax in the 1930s and 1940s. During World War II, about 6 million Jews died under the butcher's knife of Nazi Germany.

/kloc-in the 0/8th century, influenced by the bourgeois revolution, European Jews began to strive for the liberation of the Jewish nation. /kloc-in the 9th century, Austrian journalist Heckel put forward the idea of Zionism completely, and Zionist organizations were established all over the world, and Jews began to immigrate to Palestine in large numbers. 1948 On May 4th, according to the resolution on the partition of Palestine adopted by the General Assembly in 1947, Zionist leader Ben Gurion read the Declaration of Independence in Tel Aviv, and the State of Israel was formally declared.

At present, there are Jews in more than 100 countries in the world, among which the United States has the largest number, about 5.6 million. In addition, countries with large Jewish communities include France, Russia and Argentina. During the Song Dynasty, some Jews migrated to Kaifeng, Henan, China via India, and gradually merged with the Han nationality. There are some black Jews living in Ethiopia in Africa. The Israeli government brought about 20,000 of them to Israel through Operation Moses and Operation Solomon. Jews today have both racial and religious meanings. During the Great Diaspora in 2000, Jews assimilated with the nationalities of the countries where they lived to varying degrees, which had long been different in appearance and spirit, but the most important reason for Jews' concept of not fade away was their love for their own culture and religious beliefs.