The Jewish Diaspora Began In 597 Bce When. The story of the Diaspora is the Jewish story outside Israel and Judea from then till today. In 597 BC the Jewish people who were living in the kingdom of Judea what is now southern Israel rebelled against the Empire. The largest most significant and culturally most creative Jewish Diaspora in early Jewish history flourished in Alexandria where in the 1st century BCE 40 percent of the population was Jewish. A large number of Jews in Egypt became mercenaries in Upper Egypt on an island called the Elephantine.
He marched these captives to Babylon and made them prisoners. It ends with an accident in 538 when the Persians overthrow the Chaldeans. Although many Jews were exiled prior to 587 the first major diaspora was in 586 BCE when the Babylonians conquered Judaea and deported much of the population into slavery. Babylonian conquest in the sixth century BCE saw many Jews taken prisoner and moved east lhough they managed to preserve their religion. This was the first instance of the Jewish diaspora the scattering of Jews outside what is now Israel. Several decades later many were repatriated.
Jews were largely concentrated in North America 44 and the Middle East-North Africa region 41 in 2010.
The Israelites exiled by the Assyrians in the 720s. Babylonian conquest in the sixth century BCE saw many Jews taken prisoner and moved east lhough they managed to preserve their religion. The first significant Jewish Diaspora was the result of the Babylonian Exile of 586 bce. The Jewish Diaspora had three main periods to it. The Jewish diaspora dispersion is the term used to refer to Jews who are exiled from their homeland in Israel. During the Hellenistic-Roman period the chief centres of Jewish population outside Palestine were in Syria Asia Minor Babylonia and Egypt.