Exile after Exile

Can someone please explain at least two ways in which they think that the concept of exile in Judaism (beginning with the exile from the Garden of Eden, then Babylon, and so forth up to the reestablishment of the nation of Israel) has been a major part of Jewish religion and heritage. Could you also please describe what impact you believe the Holocaust would have had on the Jewish belief that all Jews have a covenant with God.
Please, any insightful responses of any sort would be very much appreciated, thanks so much.


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Ancient history is very vague. If not for The Bible, we would know virtually nothing at all about the history of the Jewish people.

The Jews have lived all over the world sometimes exiled by force and sometimes by voluntary migration. They seldom integrated with the people in the host country rather maintained their Jewish identity, lived in Jewish communities and didn't marry non-Jews. Those factors caused them to be considered outsiders and kept them from blending into the host culture. It also provided better historical documentation for their descendants than if they had melted into local society.

Three thousand years of well documented history describing life as outsiders in many foreign countries and being expelled from some of them, contributed to the importance of "exile" in Jewish history.

The Holocaust rattled the world's sensitivities and brought the Jewish experience to the forefront. Had it not been for that event, this question would most likely have never been asked. The Holocaust raised the question of how God could have allowed such horror to happen to those that considered themselves his chosen people.