page_title: Armenian–Jewish relations
section_title: Comparisons
hierarchical_section_title: Armenian–Jewish relations / Comparisons
context_page_description: Armenian–Jewish relations are complex, often due to political and historical reasons.
context_section_description: The Armenians and the Jews have been often compared in both academic and non-academic literature since at least the early 20th century, often in the context of the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust, which along with the Cambodian genocide and the Rwandan genocide are considered among the most notorious genocides of the 20th century. Historians, journalists, political experts have pointed out a number of similarities between the two ethnic groups: the wide dispersion around the world, the relatively small size, the former lack of statehood, the fact that both countries are largely surrounded by Muslim and mainly hostile countries, their influential lobby in the United States, their success in business and as model minorities, and even their success in chess.
  Charles William Wilson wrote in the 11th edition of Encyclopædia Britannica (1911):
  The Armenians are essentially an Oriental people, possessing, like the Jews, whom they resemble in their exclusiveness and widespread dispersion, a remarkable tenacity of race and faculty of adaptation to circumstances.
  During her visit to Armenia in 2012, the Israeli Minister of Agriculture Orit Noked stated, "We are like each other with our history, character, with our small number of population and having communities abroad."
caption: Jew and Armenian by James Tissot, 1880s, Brooklyn Museum
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