Mizrahi Jews
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Mizrahi Jews, also known as Mizrahim in plural and Mizrahi in singular, and alternatively referred to as Oriental Jews or Edot HaMizrach, are a grouping of Jewish communities that lived in the Muslim
A Jewish family from Damascus, c. 1901
The Westerners street in Jerusalem, Israel; coined after the Maghrebi Jews
Children in a Jewish school in Baghdad, 1959
Yemenites go to Aden
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
Mizrahi Jews
…and other North African Jews. During the 1940s, before Israel's establishment, the demographer Roberto Bachi used the categories of "Mizrahim" and "Ashkenazim" in his ethnic classification of the Yishuv. In the 1950s, the Jews who came from the communities listed above were simply called and known as Jews…
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