I'm pretty positive that it would be personification.
They were called Scribes.
Answer:
How were the Jews of Eastern and Western Europe different?
Compared with Western Europeans, fewer Central and Eastern Europeans would welcome Muslims or Jews into their families or neighborhoods, extend the right of marriage to gay or lesbian couples or broaden the definition of national identity to include people born outside their country.
What two European countries had the largest Jewish population just before World War II? In 1933, approximately 9.5 million Jews lived in Europe, comprising 1.7% of the total European population. This number represented more than 60 percent of the world's Jewish population at that time, estimated at 15.3 million.
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