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吉林大学远程教育学院

    >>>>   Unit One
    >>>>   Unit Two
    >>>>   Unit Three
    >>>>   Unit Four
    >>>>   Unit Five
    >>>>   Unit Six
    >>>>   Unit Seven
    >>>>   Unit Eight
    >>>>   Unit Nine
    >>>>   Unit Ten
    >>>>   Unit Eleven
    >>>>   Unit Twelve
    >>>>   Unit Thirteen
    >>>>   Unit Fourteen
    >>>>   Unit Fifteen
    >>>>   Unit Sixteen
    >>>>   Unit Seventeen
    >>>>   Unit Eighteen
    >>>>   Unit Nineteen
    >>>>   Unit Twenty
    >>>>   Unit Twenty-one
    >>>>   Unit Twenty-two
    >>>>   Unit Twenty-three
    >>>>   Unit Twenty-four
    >>>>   Unit Twenty-five
    >>>>   Unit Twenty-six
    >>>>   Unit Twenty-seven
    >>>>   Unit Twenty-eight
    >>>>   Unit Twenty-nine
    >>>>   Unit Thirty

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Jews:Also called Hebrews and Israelites. Ancient Jews established a nation in Western Asia. They were the first group to practice monotheism, the worship of only one god. Both Christianity and Islam follow Judaism in monotheism. After the Romans destroyed Jerusalem, the Jews were scattered all over the world, but they considered themselves as a nation, or rather as a people.
In their adopted lands, the Jews suffered great persecution in spite of their significant contribution to civilization. Anti-Jewish pressure culminated in the loss of 6 million Jewish people (40% of their total population) during World War II, most of whom were the victims of the concentration and death camps of Nazi Germany. In 1948, the state of Israel was established.

Mass Migrations: In eastern Europe waves of persecution of Jews swept through Russia and Romania between 1880 and 1922. The policy of the czarist government was to remove Jews from their jobs and force them to give up their own religion. The Jews could not bear the harsh conditions and began the largest mass migration in Jewish history. Between 1881 and 1919 more than 2 million Jews left Russia and Romania for the United States. This marked the beginning of the shift of the center of the Jewish population from the Old World to the New.