Judaism Primer
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff
Holidays, history, beliefs, culture, and more
Learn everything you need to know about Judaism, including information about the religion, Jewish history, scholars, and holidays.
compiled by Amanda Kudler and Erin Teare
Jewish Holidays
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People and Religion
- Jews
- Judaism (concise)
- Judaism (in-depth)
- Sephardim
- Ashkenazim
- Branches of Judaism
- Israel's Lost Tribes
- Chinese Jews
- Diaspora
Languages
Jewish Statehood
- Israel: Country Profile
- Israel: Encyclopedia
- Map of Israel
- Israel's 60th Anniversary
- Zionism
- Balfour Declaration
Peace Process
- Middle East 2009
- Middle East 2008
- Middle East 2007
- Middle East 2006
- Middle East 2005
- Middle East 2004
- Middle East 2003
- Middle East 2002
- Arab-Israeli Wars
- Middle East 2001
- Middle East 2000
- Middle East 1999
- Middle East 1998
- Middle East
- Map of the Middle East
Pogroms, the Holocaust, and Other Persecutions
Notable Jewish Scholars
- Judah Abarbanel
- Baal-Shem-Tov
- Akiba ben Joseph
- Elijah ben Solomon
- Isaac ben Solomon Luria
- Abraham Geiger
- Judah ha-Nasi
- Theodor Herzl
- Hillel
- Vladimir Jabotinsky
- Moses Mendelssohn
- Rashi
- Solomon Schechter
- Shammai
- Ezer Weizman
- Maimonides (Rambam)