ייִדן, romanized: Ashkenazishe Yidn), also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim, constitute a Jewish diaspora population that emerged in the Holy Roman...

said that the Mizrahim overall had only started to close the gap with Ashkenazim in two social fields: small business ownership, and politics. The petit-bourgeois...

השירים Shir ha-Shirim) is read publicly in some communities, especially by Ashkenazim, on the Sabbath of Passover. In most Mizrahi Jewish communities it is...

fluently, will know several of these greetings (most are Hebrew, and among Ashkenazim, some are Yiddish). For the Sabbath, there are several ways to greet people...

a fictitious identity advanced by Mapai to preserve a "rival" to the Ashkenazim and help them push the Mizrahim below in the social-economic ladder and...

for their Bar Mitzvah. While the majority of American Jews today are Ashkenazim, in Colonial times Sephardim made up the majority of the Jewish population...

Ashkenormativity is not synonymous with whiteness, as many Jews are Ashkenazim of color and many Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews are white. Some Jews have...

1600 onwards, also German Jews settled in Hamburg, but in 1649 these Ashkenazim were driven out of the city-state. From then on, only Sephardim were permitted...

are three main styles of lettering used: Beis Yosef – generally used by Ashkenazim; Arizal – generally used by Hasidim; Velish – used by Sefardim. The texts...

major ethnic subdivisions according to where their ancestors settled: the Ashkenazim (Western Europe), the Sephardim (Iberian Peninsula), and the Mizrahim...