In the modern era, kingdoms and empires were replaced by states.
After having been reviled, persecuted, expelled, and murdered throughout history by empires, kingdoms, and fiefdoms, Jews embraced the modern era and its promise of statism, hoping that their lot would change.
Alas, the modern era witnessed unimaginably greater slaughter and destruction to o…
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