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1. Jews

   Jews (Hebrew: יְהוּדִים, ISO 259-2: Yehudim, Israeli pronunciation: [jehuˈdim]) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites and Hebrews of historical Israel and Judah. Jewish ethnicity, nationhood, and religion are strongly interrelated, as Judaism is the ethnic religion of the Jewish people, although its observance varies from strict to none.Jews originated as an ethnic and religious group in the Middle East during the second millennium BCE, in a part of the Levant known as the Land of Israel. The Merneptah Stele of ancient Egypt appears to confirm the existence of a people of Israel somewhere in Canaan as far back as the 13th century BCE (Late Bronze Age). The Israelites, as an outgrowth of the Canaanite population, consolidated their hold in the region with the emergence of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. Some consider that these Canaan-sedentary Israelites melded with incoming nomadic groups known as the "Hebrews". The experience of life in the Jewish diaspora, from the Babylonian captivity and exile (though few sources mention this period in detail) to the Roman occupation and exile, and the historical relations between Jews and their homeland in the Levant thereafter became a major feature of Jewish history, identity, culture, and memory.In the following millennia, Jewish diaspora communities coalesced into three major ethnic subdivisions according to where their ancestors settled: the Ashkenazim (Central and Eastern Europe), the Sephardim (initially in the Iberian Peninsula), and the Mizrahim (Middle East and North Africa). Prior to World War II, the global Jewish population reached a peak of 16.7 million, representing around 0.7 percent of the world population at that time. During World War II, approximately 6 million Jews throughout Europe were systematically murdered by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. Since then, the population has slowly risen again, and as of 2018, was estimated to be at 14.6–17.8 million by the Berman Jewish DataBank, comprising less than 0.2 percent of the total world population. The modern State of Israel is the only country where Jews form a majority of the population. Jews have significantly influenced and contributed to human progress in many fields, both historically and in modern times, including in science and technology, philosophy, ethics, literature, politics, business, art, music, comedy, theatre, cinema, architecture, food, medicine, and religion. Jews wrote the Bible, founded Christianity, and had an indirect but profound influence on Islam. In these ways, Jews have also played a significant role in the development of Western culture.

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1. Jews

   An ethnic group with historical ties to the land of ISRAEL and the religion of JUDAISM.

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1. JEWS

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Jews is ranked #126765 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Jews surname appeared 135 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Jews.
   
   88.8% or 120 total occurrences were Black.
   5.1% or 7 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   4.4% or 6 total occurrences were White.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'jews' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4811

How to pronounce jews?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say jews in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of jews in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of jews in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of jews in a Sentence

1. Steve Scalise:

   There is no justification for the twisted and disgusting comments made by Rashida Tlaib just days after the annual Day of Holocaust Remembrance, more than 6 million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust ; there is nothing' calming' about that fact.

2. John Calvin:

   It is said that this idol provoked to jealousy, because the Jews by erecting this idol trod under foot their God, or at least endeavored to prostrate his glory.”

3. Judah SametTimothy Matson:

   It just never ends. It's never completely safe for Jews. It's in the DNA. Not just America's DNA but the world's.

4. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:

   Extremist Islamic terrorism has struck Europe again, this time in Denmark, we are preparing and calling for the absorption of mass immigration from Europe. To the Jews of Europe and to the Jews of the world I say that Israel is waiting for you with open arms.

5. Oskar Schindler:

   I felt the Jews were being destroyed. I had to help them. There was no choice.

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References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews
2. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html