2007-10-10 17:32:29 · 14 answers · asked by spencer_tracy 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
I was reading on other questions where people were saying Jew is a race. Thanks for clearing this up!
2007-10-10 17:37:38 · update #1
They were the race of whichever country they were from...So, for example, if there were 524 Jews that got killed from one town in the country of Poland, then they were of the Polish race, but of the Jewish religion. Get it? The race(s) that suffered were those who helped defend the world against the Germans, and all of those who were Jewish, homosexual, etc. living in those countries that Germany dominated.
2007-10-11 20:52:36 · answer #1 · answered by וואלה 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Jews consider them selfs a nation. This is based on the biblical line where God says "I will make of you a great nation" reffering to people who will accept the covenant of the Torah.
The Jewish nation is based on religion because you can convert to Judaism (accepting the covenant) and become a Jew. But if you are born a Jew, the only way to stop being a Jew is to convert to some other religion.
Of course Hitler really didn't care about any of this. He considered anyone with even one grandparent of Jewish descent to be a "racial" Jew regardless of their religion. Those people got sent to the concentration camps.
2007-10-11 00:58:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jew and jewish religion are basically the same thing.
But the Holocaust affected many other people apart from the jews so the victims and survivors won't all belong to that religion.
2007-10-11 01:34:27 · answer #3 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The same.
A Jew is a person tha belongs to the group of people that claim to be descent from Jacob (or converted to it) and connected by cultural or religious tie.
A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnic group originating in the Israelites or "Hebrews" of the ancient Middle East. The ethnicity and the religion of Judaism, the traditional faith of the Jewish nation, are strongly interrelated, and converts to Judaism are both included and have been absorbed within the Jewish people throughout the millennia.
2007-10-11 00:36:02 · answer #4 · answered by juju 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The term Jew pertains to race. Judaism is the term for their religion. Holocaust victims where Jews.
2007-10-11 00:36:33 · answer #5 · answered by Brian_Galang 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The race that suffered the most in the holocaust, relative to their population, were the Romany, more commonly called the gypsies.
2007-10-11 00:41:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jewish is a Religion, not a Race.
But saying this, you can tell a jewish person, with Face Features, like Nose etc, so how knows ?
2007-10-11 04:27:49 · answer #7 · answered by worldwidefords 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Jews are not a race, they are a "people." Not that it makes things clearer.
2007-10-11 01:52:40 · answer #8 · answered by Howard H 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They were Jewish- it's not completley a relgion, it's sort of a nationality too... But they got Jews from Russia, Germany, Poland, Holland... Everywhere.
2007-10-11 00:37:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Nazis declared "Jew" a race based on linguistic lineage. Most of the people persecuted or killed by the Nazis were Europeans.
2007-10-11 00:37:28 · answer #10 · answered by Victoria 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋