Jewish Culture
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I chose the Jewish culture to write about. It is an extremely important and
interesting culture to learn about and follow throughout their journey in history. In the following paragraphs I plan to describe the Jewish civilization, demographics, the six cultural phenomena: Environmental control, biological variations, social organizations, communication, space, and time orientation, as well as the Jewish health care system today.
The very first Jewish communities in the United States were settled by
Sephardim, Jews of the Spanish-Portuguese refugees from Brazil in 1654. Most of them came to escape persecution and hardship. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the majority of American Jews were of German and Central European background. During the second half of the nineteenth century and especially from 1880 to the mid 1920's, there was a massive wave of immigration from Eastern and Southern Europe. In this period of immigration, Italians were the largest immigrant group to enter America. The American Jewish community numbered approximately a quarter of a million in 1880 and two and a half million Jews from 1881-1923. Today the United States has the largest Jewish population in the world (Rosenburg & Waxman, 1999)...