What are the differences among Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and Mizrahi Jews?
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Max Daniel [+]
Addlestone Library, College of Charleston
Max Daniel is the Public Historian and Jewish Heritage Collection Coordinator at Special Collections in the Addlestone Library at the College of Charleston.
Description
This chapter describes the Jewish groupings of Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and Mizrahi, which can be loosely defined as cultural, ethnic, or geographic categories, and can also correspond to particular religious traditions, customs, liturgy, and language. Unlike Ashkenazi or Sephardi, Mizrahi is a recent category that developed out of modern Zionism and intra-Jewish differences in what became the State of Israel.