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The first Jewish population in the region to be later known as Germany came with the Romans to the city now known as Cologne. A "Golden Age" in the first millennium saw the emergence of the Ashkenazi Jews, while the persecution and expulsion that followed the Crusades led to the creation of Yiddish and an overall shift eastwards.
German Jewish passports could be used to leave, but not to return. On 4 June 1937, two young German Jews, Helmut Hirsch and Isaac Utting, were both executed for being involved in a plot to bomb the Nazi party headquarters in Nuremberg. [citation needed] As of 1 March 1938, government contracts could no longer be awarded to Jewish businesses.
For the Jews who came from the German speaking world, there was a word in use for many years : "Yekke", in Yiddish and Hebrew. One of the explanations of the name in Hebrew is "Yehudi Kshe Havana" יהודי קשה הבנה "A Jew who hardly understands" for the so called "stiffness of their mentality". [citation needed]
In it, Schoeps wrote, among other things: "National Socialism saves Germany from destruction; today Germany is experiencing its völkisch renewal" and called for an "acceleration of the absolutely necessary separation of German and non-German Jews as well as the collection of all German-conscious Jews under uniform authoritarian leadership ...
The organization invites North American Jewish students between 18 and 39 to “meet modern Germany” during programs financed in part by the German Government’s Transatlantic Program.
German Jews in Israel; Total population; 70,000 (2012) [citation needed] Regions with significant populations; Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa, Netanya, Ashdod, Beersheba and many other places
Jewish German anti-Zionists (11 P) German Ashkenazi Jews (3 C, 58 P) C. Jewish German culture (7 P) D. People of German-Jewish descent (45 C, 1 P)
The German counterpart Jude was extensively used during the Nazi period as a part of its anti-semitic campaign (eventually leading to genocide). [8] The word has become more often used in a neutral fashion, as it underwent a process known as reappropriation. [9] [10] Even today some people are wary of its use, and prefer to use "Jewish".