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| | The Ultimate Jew - American History Information Guide and Reference |
 | | While Jewish communities throughout the Islamic world were often treated well by their Muslim rulers, depending on the regime in power, Jewish communities in Spain, North Africa, and the Middle East were at times subject to persecutions, expulsions, and forced conversion. |
 | | The patriarch Abraham was a migrant to the land of Canaan from Ur of the Chaldees. |
 | | The 2,000 year dispersion of the Jewish diaspora beginning under the Roman Empire, as Jews were spread throughout the Roman world and, driven from land to land, and settled wherever they could live freely enough to practice their religion. |
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