3 Flashcards
Not known if _ was true
Deportation of Jews to safed
Turks taxed the Jews on the basis of
Qur’anic command
Qur’anic command stated _ must pay taxes
People of the book
People of the book were primarily (2)
Jews
Christians
The word for tax
Jizya
In 1674, Jesuit priest wrote
Jews paid heavy taxes to Turks to remain in Jerusalem
Jews preferred _ to being elsewhere
Being prisoners in Jerusalem
Israel and Palestine are the Jew’s
Holy Land
Why Jews lost their Holy Land
Betraying Christ
Palestine became increasingly
Inhospitable
By the end of the 18th century only _ people lived in the land of Palestine (range)
250k
300k
Out of the 250k, 300k people living in the region _ were Jews (range)
10k
15k
In _ Jews came to region from Russia
1810
The Russian Jews were disciples of the great Talmudic scholar _
The Vilna Gaon
The Russians rejoiced once they arrived even though
The land was rugged and harsh