HIST 295 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sephardi Jews, Rabbinic Judaism, Hasidic Judaism
21 Sep 2016
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Hist 295 the holocaust; september 21, 2016. The final solution the solution to the jewish problem. Israel: abraham had a son, isaac. This can be verified to have occurred in the year 722 bc: in 586 bc, the babylonian empire destroyed judah. Its leaders were taken to babylon: empires come and go, 50 years later, the persian empire comes along. They give the jews permission to return to jerusalem, and they rebuilt the temple. The temple was the centre of judaism: the persian"s were defeated by alexander the great in the 300s bc, his generals took over, they attempted to assimilate the jews from israel, force them to worship the. Greek gods: it didn"t go over well, 167 bc, there was a revolt led by the maccabees, after the greeks, came the roman empire, and after a century or so, stubborn. In the year 70 bc, the romans destroy the temple for a second time and disperse the jews.
