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 | | Western Europe's largest Jewish community can be found in France, home to 600,000 Jews, the majority of whom are immigrants or refugees from North African Arab countries such as Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia (or their descendants). |
 | | No new books were added to the Jewish Bible after the Roman period, instead major efforts went into interpreting and developing the Halakhah, or oral law, and writing down these traditions in the Talmud, the key work on the interepretation of Jewish law, written during the First to fifth centuries CE. |
 | | Some secular historians speculate that a majority of the Jews in Antiquity were Most likely descendants of converts in the cities of the Graeco-Roman world, especially in Alexandria and Asia Minor. |
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