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More than a billion people hate Jews. Here’s what that does to us.

JL;DR SUMMARY Liah Greenfeld's essay examines the psychological impact of pervasive antisemitism on Jews worldwide, highlighting the massive scale of antisemitic sentiment—exceeding a billion individuals according to estimates—and its profound effects on Jewish identity and mental health. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish IdentityDiaspora JewsJewish PhilanthropyJewish ActivismCoping MechanismsWestern SocietyPsychological ImpactSocial Acceptance

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Tunisia
"A prominent French-Tunisian filmmaker, an Arab and a Muslim, Said Ben-Said (who insists that the Arab world is, in its majority, antisemitic and is ostracized for this in his, Arab and Muslim, community), estimates that for every Jew in the world, there are at least 100 antisemites."
China
"Given that the Chinese and Indian civilizations (about half of humanity) never developed indigenous antisemitic traditions and hardly understand what antisemitism is, these 2.4 billion are concentrated within the monotheistic (Western) civilization and represent 60 percent of its population."
India
"Given that the Chinese and Indian civilizations (about half of humanity) never developed indigenous antisemitic traditions and hardly understand what antisemitism is, these 2.4 billion are concentrated within the monotheistic (Western) civilization and represent 60 percent of its population."
Israel
"Today, about 8.5 million Jews live in the Diaspora (about 7.5 million in the United States), and another 7.5 million in Israel."
United States
"Today, about 8.5 million Jews live in the Diaspora (about 7.5 million in the United States), and another 7.5 million in Israel."
Poland
"on Western campuses and near-ubiquitous support of openly antisemitic demonstrations with their calls (addressed to the general public) to gas the Jews and (addressed to the Jews) to go back to Poland, in the media, Jews felt unsafe."

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