Judaism

Jews, their communities and their Judaism, have undergone major transformations in the decades since the end of World War II. Their migrations and settlements in dozens of countries around the world have made them the quintessential ethnic and religious minority characterized by globalization. Their population dispersal among many countries, the development of local institutions, and their cultural and social assimilation are legacies of the past but have been radically reshaped beginning in the nineteenth and continuing in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.