romikgosai/squad_modified huggingface dataset:
Despite efforts to revive Hebrew as the national language of the Jewish people, knowledge of the language is not commonly possessed by Jews worldwide and English has emerged as the lingua franca of the Jewish diaspora. Although many Jews once had sufficient knowledge of Hebrew to study the classic literature, and Jewish languages like Yiddish and Ladino were commonly used as recently as the early 20th century, most Jews lack such knowledge today and English has by and large superseded most Jewish vernaculars. The three most commonly spoken languages among Jews today are Hebrew, English, and Russian. Some Romance languages, particularly French and Spanish, are also widely used. Yiddish has been spoken by more Jews in history than any other language, but it is far less used today following the Holocaust and the adoption of Modern Hebrew by the Zionist movement and the State of Israel. In some places, the mother language of the Jewish community differs from that of the general population or the dominant group. For example, in Quebec, the Ashkenazic majority has adopted English, while the Sephardic minority uses French as its primary language. Similarly, South African Jews adopted English rather than Afrikaans. Due to both Czarist and Soviet policies, Russian has superseded Yiddish as the language of Russian Jews, but these policies have also affected neighboring communities. Today, Russian is the first language for many Jewish communities in a number of Post-Soviet states, such as Ukraine and Uzbekistan, as well as for Ashkenazic Jews in Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Tajikistan. Although communities in North Africa today are small and dwindling, Jews there had shifted from a multilingual group to a monolingual one (or nearly so), speaking French in Algeria, Morocco, and the city of Tunis, while most North Africans continue to use Arabic as their mother tongue.[citation needed]

Questions and answers:
['
Q: What language is spoken by more Jews in history than any other language?
A: Yiddish', '
Q: North Africans continue to use what language as their mother tongue?
A: North Africans', '
Q: What are the three most commonly spoken languages among Jews today?
A: Hebrew, English, and Russian', '
Q: South African Jews adopted which language?
A: English', '
Q: Which language has by and far superseded most Jewish vernaculars?
A: English']
Y DNA studies tend to imply a small number of founders in an old population whose members parted and followed different migration paths. In most Jewish populations, these male line ancestors appear to have been mainly Middle Eastern. For example, Ashkenazi Jews share more common paternal lineages with other Jewish and Middle Eastern groups than with non-Jewish populations in areas where Jews lived in Eastern Europe, Germany and the French Rhine Valley. This is consistent with Jewish traditions in placing most Jewish paternal origins in the region of the Middle East. Conversely, the maternal lineages of Jewish populations, studied by looking at mitochondrial DNA, are generally more heterogeneous. Scholars such as Harry Ostrer and Raphael Falk believe this indicates that many Jewish males found new mates from European and other communities in the places where they migrated in the diaspora after fleeing ancient Israel. In contrast, Behar has found evidence that about 40% of Ashkenazi Jews originate maternally from just four female founders, who were of Middle Eastern origin. The populations of Sephardi and Mizrahi Jewish communities "showed no evidence for a narrow founder effect." Subsequent studies carried out by Feder et al. confirmed the large portion of non-local maternal origin among Ashkenazi Jews. Reflecting on their findings related to the maternal origin of Ashkenazi Jews, the authors conclude "Clearly, the differences between Jews and non-Jews are far larger than those observed among the Jewish communities. Hence, differences between the Jewish communities can be overlooked when non-Jews are included in the comparisons."

Questions and answers:
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Q: Ashkenazi Jews share more common paternal lineages with what group?
A: Jewish and Middle Eastern groups', '
Q: Jewish traditions place most Jewish paternal origins in which region?
A: Middle East', '
Q: Which lineages are generally more heterogeneous?
A: maternal lineages']
Studies of autosomal DNA, which look at the entire DNA mixture, have become increasingly important as the technology develops. They show that Jewish populations have tended to form relatively closely related groups in independent communities, with most in a community sharing significant ancestry in common. For Jewish populations of the diaspora, the genetic composition of Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and Mizrahi Jewish populations show a predominant amount of shared Middle Eastern ancestry. According to Behar, the most parsimonious explanation for this shared Middle Eastern ancestry is that it is "consistent with the historical formulation of the Jewish people as descending from ancient Hebrew and Israelite residents of the Levant" and "the dispersion of the people of ancient Israel throughout the Old World". North African, Italian and others of Iberian origin show variable frequencies of admixture with non-Jewish historical host populations among the maternal lines. In the case of Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews (in particular Moroccan Jews), who are closely related, the source of non-Jewish admixture is mainly southern European, while Mizrahi Jews show evidence of admixture with other Middle Eastern populations and Sub-Saharan Africans. Behar et al. have remarked on an especially close relationship of Ashkenazi Jews and modern Italians.

Questions and answers:
['
Q: What looks at the entire DNA mixture?
A: autosomal DNA', '
Q: What has become increasingly important as the technology deveops?
A: autosomal DNA', '
Q: Mizrahi Jews show evidence of admixture with whom?
A: Middle Eastern populations and Sub-Saharan Africans']
The studies also show that the Sephardic Bnei Anusim (descendants of the "anusim" forced converts to Catholicism) of Iberia (estimated at about 19.8% of modern Iberia) and Ibero-America (estimated at least 10% of modern Ibero-America) have Sephardic Jewish origins within the last few centuries, while the Bene Israel and Cochin Jews of India, Beta Israel of Ethiopia, and a portion of the Lemba people of Southern Africa, despite more closely resembling the local populations of their native countries, also have some more remote ancient Jewish descent.

Questions and answers:
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Q: What are Sephardic Bnei Anusim?
A: descendants of the "anusim" forced converts to Catholicism', '
Q: Who are descendants of the "anusim" forced converts to Catholicism?
A: Sephardic Bnei Anusim', '
Q: What percentage of Iberians are Sephardic Bnei Anusim?
A: 19.8%']
Between 1948 and 1958, the Jewish population rose from 800,000 to two million. Currently, Jews account for 75.4% of the Israeli population, or 6 million people. The early years of the State of Israel were marked by the mass immigration of Holocaust survivors in the aftermath of the Holocaust and Jews fleeing Arab lands. Israel also has a large population of Ethiopian Jews, many of whom were airlifted to Israel in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Between 1974 and 1979 nearly 227,258 immigrants arrived in Israel, about half being from the Soviet Union. This period also saw an increase in immigration to Israel from Western Europe, Latin America, and North America.

Questions and answers:
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Q: What years did the Jewish population rise from 800,000 to two million?
A: 1948 and 1958', '
Q: What is the population of Israel?
A: 6 million', '
Q: Between 1974 and 1979, how many immigrants arrived in Israel?
A: 227,258']
More than half of the Jews live in the Diaspora (see Population table). Currently, the largest Jewish community outside Israel, and either the largest or second-largest Jewish community in the world, is located in the United States, with 5.2 million to 6.4 million Jews by various estimates. Elsewhere in the Americas, there are also large Jewish populations in Canada (315,000), Argentina (180,000-300,000), and Brazil (196,000-600,000), and smaller populations in Mexico, Uruguay, Venezuela, Chile, Colombia and several other countries (see History of the Jews in Latin America). Demographers disagree on whether the United States has a larger Jewish population than Israel, with many maintaining that Israel surpassed the United States in Jewish population during the 2000s, while others maintain that the United States still has the largest Jewish population in the world. Currently, a major national Jewish population survey is planned to ascertain whether or not Israel has overtaken the United States in Jewish population.

Questions and answers:
['
Q: More than half of the Jews live where?
A: Diaspora', '
Q: How many Jews live in Canada?
A: 315,000', '
Q: How many Jews live in Argentina?
A: 180,000-300,000', '
Q: How many Jews live in Brazil?
A: 196,000-600,000']
Western Europe's largest Jewish community, and the third-largest Jewish community in the world, can be found in France, home to between 483,000 and 500,000 Jews, the majority of whom are immigrants or refugees from North African Arab countries such as Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia (or their descendants). The United Kingdom has a Jewish community of 292,000. In Eastern Europe, there are anywhere from 350,000 to one million Jews living in the former Soviet Union, but exact figures are difficult to establish. In Germany, the 102,000 Jews registered with the Jewish community are a slowly declining population, despite the immigration of tens of thousands of Jews from the former Soviet Union since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Thousands of Israelis also live in Germany, either permanently or temporarily, for economic reasons.

Questions and answers:
["
Q: Where is Western Europe's largest Jewish community?
A: France", '
Q: How many Jews live in France?
A: between 483,000 and 500,000', '
Q: What is the population of Jews in the United Kingdom?
A: 292,000']
Prior to 1948, approximately 800,000 Jews were living in lands which now make up the Arab world (excluding Israel). Of these, just under two-thirds lived in the French-controlled Maghreb region, 15–20% in the Kingdom of Iraq, approximately 10% in the Kingdom of Egypt and approximately 7% in the Kingdom of Yemen. A further 200,000 lived in Pahlavi Iran and the Republic of Turkey. Today, around 26,000 Jews live in Arab countries and around 30,000 in Iran and Turkey. A small-scale exodus had begun in many countries in the early decades of the 20th century, although the only substantial aliyah came from Yemen and Syria. The exodus from Arab and Muslim countries took place primarily from 1948. The first large-scale exoduses took place in the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily in Iraq, Yemen and Libya, with up to 90% of these communities leaving within a few years. The peak of the exodus from Egypt occurred in 1956. The exodus in the Maghreb countries peaked in the 1960s. Lebanon was the only Arab country to see a temporary increase in its Jewish population during this period, due to an influx of refugees from other Arab countries, although by the mid-1970s the Jewish community of Lebanon had also dwindled. In the aftermath of the exodus wave from Arab states, an additional migration of Iranian Jews peaked in the 1980s when around 80% of Iranian Jews left the country.[citation needed]

Questions and answers:
['
Q: Prior to 1948, how many Jews were living in lands which now make up the Arab world (excluding Israel)?
A: 800,000', '
Q: The only substantial aliyah came from where?
A: Yemen and Syria', '
Q: When did a small-scale exodus begin in many countries?
A: early decades of the 20th century']
Since at least the time of the Ancient Greeks, a proportion of Jews have assimilated into the wider non-Jewish society around them, by either choice or force, ceasing to practice Judaism and losing their Jewish identity. Assimilation took place in all areas, and during all time periods, with some Jewish communities, for example the Kaifeng Jews of China, disappearing entirely. The advent of the Jewish Enlightenment of the 18th century (see Haskalah) and the subsequent emancipation of the Jewish populations of Europe and America in the 19th century, accelerated the situation, encouraging Jews to increasingly participate in, and become part of, secular society. The result has been a growing trend of assimilation, as Jews marry non-Jewish spouses and stop participating in the Jewish community.

Questions and answers:
['
Q: When did the advent of the Jewish Enlightenment occur?
A: 18th century', '
Q: What was a result of the Jewish Enlightenment?
A: growing trend of assimilation', '
Q: Name a Jewish community that disappeared entirely?
A: Kaifeng Jews of China']
Rates of interreligious marriage vary widely: In the United States, it is just under 50%, in the United Kingdom, around 53%; in France; around 30%, and in Australia and Mexico, as low as 10%. In the United States, only about a third of children from intermarriages affiliate with Jewish religious practice. The result is that most countries in the Diaspora have steady or slightly declining religiously Jewish populations as Jews continue to assimilate into the countries in which they live.[citation needed]

Questions and answers:
['
Q: What is the rate of interreligious marriage in the United States?
A: just under 50%', '
Q: What is the rate of interreligious marriage in the United Kingdom?
A: 53%', '
Q: What is the rate of interreligious marriage in France?
A: 30%', '
Q: What is the rate of interreligious marriage in Mexico?
A: as low as 10%', '
Q: What is the rate of interreligious marriage in Australia?
A: as low as 10%']
In the Papal States, which existed until 1870, Jews were required to live only in specified neighborhoods called ghettos. In the 19th and (before the end of World War II) 20th centuries, the Roman Catholic Church adhered to a distinction between "good antisemitism" and "bad antisemitism". The "bad" kind promoted hatred of Jews because of their descent. This was considered un-Christian because the Christian message was intended for all of humanity regardless of ethnicity; anyone could become a Christian. The "good" kind criticized alleged Jewish conspiracies to control newspapers, banks, and other institutions, to care only about accumulation of wealth, etc.

Questions and answers:
['
Q: When did the Papal States exist?
A: until 1870', '
Q: In the Papal States, what is the name for the specified neighborhoods where Jews were required to live?
A: ghettos', '
Q: What promoted hatred of Jews because of their descent?
A: bad antisemitism']
Islam and Judaism have a complex relationship. Traditionally Jews and Christians living in Muslim lands, known as dhimmis, were allowed to practice their religions and administer their internal affairs, but they were subject to certain conditions. They had to pay the jizya (a per capita tax imposed on free adult non-Muslim males) to the Islamic state. Dhimmis had an inferior status under Islamic rule. They had several social and legal disabilities such as prohibitions against bearing arms or giving testimony in courts in cases involving Muslims. Many of the disabilities were highly symbolic. The one described by Bernard Lewis as "most degrading" was the requirement of distinctive clothing, not found in the Quran or hadith but invented in early medieval Baghdad; its enforcement was highly erratic. On the other hand, Jews rarely faced martyrdom or exile, or forced compulsion to change their religion, and they were mostly free in their choice of residence and profession.

Questions and answers:
['
Q: What were Jews and Christians living in Muslim lands known as?
A: dhimmis', '
Q: What is the per capita tax imposed on free adult non-Muslim males known as?
A: jizya', '
Q: What was the disability described by Bernard Lewis as "most degrading?"
A: requirement of distinctive clothing', '
Q: Which group had an inferior status under Islamic rule?
A: Dhimmis']
Notable exceptions include the massacre of Jews and forcible conversion of some Jews by the rulers of the Almohad dynasty in Al-Andalus in the 12th century, as well as in Islamic Persia, and the forced confinement of Moroccan Jews to walled quarters known as mellahs beginning from the 15th century and especially in the early 19th century. In modern times, it has become commonplace for standard antisemitic themes to be conflated with anti-Zionist publications and pronouncements of Islamic movements such as Hezbollah and Hamas, in the pronouncements of various agencies of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and even in the newspapers and other publications of Turkish Refah Partisi."

Questions and answers:
['
Q: What were walled quarters known as?
A: mellahs', '
Q: Who was forced into confinement in mellahs?
A: Moroccan Jews', '
Q: When did the confinement of Moroccan Jews in mellahs begin?
A: 15th century']
Throughout history, many rulers, empires and nations have oppressed their Jewish populations or sought to eliminate them entirely. Methods employed ranged from expulsion to outright genocide; within nations, often the threat of these extreme methods was sufficient to silence dissent. The history of antisemitism includes the First Crusade which resulted in the massacre of Jews; the Spanish Inquisition (led by Tomás de Torquemada) and the Portuguese Inquisition, with their persecution and autos-da-fé against the New Christians and Marrano Jews; the Bohdan Chmielnicki Cossack massacres in Ukraine; the Pogroms backed by the Russian Tsars; as well as expulsions from Spain, Portugal, England, France, Germany, and other countries in which the Jews had settled. According to a 2008 study published in the American Journal of Human Genetics, 19.8% of the modern Iberian population has Sephardic Jewish ancestry, indicating that the number of conversos may have been much higher than originally thought.

Questions and answers:
['
Q: What was one method used to entirely eliminate Jewish populations?
A: expulsion', '
Q: What resulted in the massacre of Jews?
A: First Crusade', '
Q: Who led the Spanish Inquisition?
A: Tomás de Torquemada', '
Q: According to the American Journal of Human Genetics, what percentage of modern Iberian population has Sephardic Jewish ancestry?
A: 19.8%']
The persecution reached a peak in Nazi Germany's Final Solution, which led to the Holocaust and the slaughter of approximately 6 million Jews. Of the world's 15 million Jews in 1939, more than a third were killed in the Holocaust. The Holocaust—the state-led systematic persecution and genocide of European Jews (and certain communities of North African Jews in European controlled North Africa) and other minority groups of Europe during World War II by Germany and its collaborators remains the most notable modern-day persecution of Jews. The persecution and genocide were accomplished in stages. Legislation to remove the Jews from civil society was enacted years before the outbreak of World War II. Concentration camps were established in which inmates were used as slave labour until they died of exhaustion or disease. Where the Third Reich conquered new territory in Eastern Europe, specialized units called Einsatzgruppen murdered Jews and political opponents in mass shootings. Jews and Roma were crammed into ghettos before being transported hundreds of miles by freight train to extermination camps where, if they survived the journey, the majority of them were killed in gas chambers. Virtually every arm of Germany's bureaucracy was involved in the logistics of the mass murder, turning the country into what one Holocaust scholar has called "a genocidal nation."

Questions and answers:
['
Q: How many Jews were slaughtered in the Holocaust?
A: approximately 6 million', '
Q: Worldwide, how many Jews were there in 1939?
A: 15 million', '
Q: What was the state-led systematic persecution and genocide of European Jews and other minority groups?
A: The Holocaust', '
Q: In 1939, what fraction of Jews were killed in The Holocaust?
A: more than a third']
There is also a trend of Orthodox movements pursuing secular Jews in order to give them a stronger Jewish identity so there is less chance of intermarriage. As a result of the efforts by these and other Jewish groups over the past 25 years, there has been a trend (known as the Baal Teshuva movement) for secular Jews to become more religiously observant, though the demographic implications of the trend are unknown. Additionally, there is also a growing rate of conversion to Jews by Choice of gentiles who make the decision to head in the direction of becoming Jews.

Questions and answers:
['
Q: What is one method used to prevent intermarriage?
A: pursuing secular Jews in order to give them a stronger Jewish identity', '
Q: What is the trend for secular Jews to become more religiously observant known as?
A: the Baal Teshuva movement', '
Q: Who leads the movement that pursues secular Jews in order to give them stronger Jewish identity?
A: Orthodox']
The fiber is most often spun into yarn or thread and used to make a soft, breathable textile. The use of cotton for fabric is known to date to prehistoric times; fragments of cotton fabric dated from 5000 BC have been excavated in Mexico and the Indus Valley Civilization in Ancient India (modern-day Pakistan and some parts of India). Although cultivated since antiquity, it was the invention of the cotton gin that lowered the cost of production that led to its widespread use, and it is the most widely used natural fiber cloth in clothing today.

Questions and answers:
['
Q: What is the most frequent use of cotton?
A: fabric', '
Q: To what date has cotton been dated?
A: 5000 BC', '
Q: Where in India has cotton been found from prehistoric times?
A: Indus Valley', '
Q: In what Central American country has cotton use been found from early times?
A: Mexico', '
Q: What machinery has lead to the  easily made and widespread use of cotton?
A: cotton gin']
The earliest evidence of cotton use in South Asia has been found at the site of Mehrgarh, Pakistan, where cotton threads have been found preserved in copper beads; these finds have been dated to Neolithic (between 6000 and 5000 BCE). Cotton cultivation in the region is dated to the Indus Valley Civilization, which covered parts of modern eastern Pakistan and northwestern India between 3300 and 1300 BCE The Indus cotton industry was well-developed and some methods used in cotton spinning and fabrication continued to be used until the industrialization of India. Between 2000 and 1000 BC cotton became widespread across much of India. For example, it has been found at the site of Hallus in Karnataka dating from around 1000 BC.

Questions and answers:
['
Q: Where in Southeast Asia has early use of cotton been discovered?
A: Mehrgarh, Pakistan', '
Q: To what period has cotton been dated in Pakistan?
A: Neolithic', '
Q: When did the Indus Valley Civilization cover parts of India and Pakistan?
A: 3300 and 1300 BCE', '
Q: Until what event did the ancient methods of spinning and fabrication of cotton last?
A: industrialization', '
Q: During what time did cotton become widely used in India?
A: 2000 and 1000 BC']
In Iran (Persia), the history of cotton dates back to the Achaemenid era (5th century BC); however, there are few sources about the planting of cotton in pre-Islamic Iran. The planting of cotton was common in Merv, Ray and Pars of Iran. In Persian poets' poems, especially Ferdowsi's Shahname, there are references to cotton ("panbe" in Persian). Marco Polo (13th century) refers to the major products of Persia, including cotton. John Chardin, a French traveler of the 17th century who visited the Safavid Persia, spoke approvingly of the vast cotton farms of Persia.

Questions and answers:
['
Q: Use of cotton in Iran dates back to what period?
A: Achaemenid era', '
Q: When was the Achaemenid era?
A: 5th century BC', "
Q: In what source can references to cotton be found in Iran?
A: Persian poets' poems", '
Q: What 13th century explorer saw cotton in Persia?
A: Marco Polo', '
Q: What Frenchman in the 17th century noted cotton farming in Persia?
A: John Chardin']