Ashkenazi Jews
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Ashkenazi Jews form a distinct ethnic subdivision of the Jewish diaspora, emerging from the Jewish communities that consolidated during the 10th century in the Rhineland and in northern France, having
Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur (1878)
Jews from Worms (Germany) wearing the mandatory yellow badge, 16th century
The Old Synagogue in Erfurt, Germany is thought to be the oldest synagogue building intact in Europe
The distribution of Jews in Central Europe in 1881
Jewish diaspora
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The Jewish diaspora, alternatively the dispersion or the exile, consists of Jews who reside outside of the Land of Israel. Historically, it refers to the expansive scattering of the Israelites out of
Ashkenazi Jews
…Ashkenazi Jews ( A(H)SH-kə-NAH-zee; also known as Ashkenazic Jews, Ashkenazis, or Ashkenazim) form a distinct ethnic subdivision of the Jewish diaspora, emerging from the Jewish communities that consolidated during the 10th century in the Rhineland (western Germany) and in northern France, having…
Scene from Lachish reliefs: Judahites from Lachish in Assyrian captivity, playing the lyre (cf. Psalm 137 from a later period: 'they that carried us away captive required of us a song'.)
European Jewish immigrants arriving in New York
Expulsion of French Jews, 1182
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