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
Sephardic Jews
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Sephardic Jews, also known as Sephardi Jews or Sephardim, and rarely as Iberian Peninsula Jews, are a Jewish diaspora population associated with the historic Jewish communities of the Iberian Peninsul
Ashkenazi Jews
…its own. Ashkenazi Hebrew came to be pronounced in ways that were distinct from other forms of Hebrew. In this respect, one counterpart of Ashkenazi is Sephardic, since a majority of non-Ashkenazi Orthodox Jews follow Sephardic rabbinical authorities, whether or not they are ethnically Sephardic. (Regardless…
Sephardic Jewish festival in Tétouan, Morocco, Alfred Dehodencq, 1865, Paris Museum of Jewish Art and History
Statue of Maimonides in Córdoba
Observing the Havdalah ritual, 14th-century Spain
Windows and decorative reliefs of the Synagogue of El Tránsito, Toledo, constructed circa 1350.