Judaization - Geopolitical Acculturation

Geopolitical Acculturation

It refers to the act or process of assimilating or absorbing a demographic group or geographic region to nominally Jewish cultural and religious norms. Due to the cultural ties of Judaism with the Hebrew language, it can be alternately designated as Hebraization in regards to the renaming of geographic areas and personal names with Hebrew appellations, as has been the case with Jewish immigration and human settlement in Israel and related territories; this Hebraization of Jewish culture in Israel extends to the Hebraization of political and military institutions which were imported from Western countries. In a strictly religious sense, Judaization can also apply to the making or designation of a thing in a more religiously-compliant (by such guidelines as kashrut) or religiously-appealing context.

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