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Jews who's ancestry includes those who were once part of the Jewish communities of Muslim Spain (where Jews were expelled from by then Catholic Spain in 1492 on Tish b'Av), North Africa and much of the Arab world are known as Sephardim. Their common language was/is Ladino--something like old Spanish written with Hebrew characters. The language and the music of Sephardim sounds a lot like Arabic.
Jews who are descendants of those living in Christian Europe (Germany, Hungary, Poland, Russia, etc.) are known as Ashkenazim. They spoke Yiddish, a mix of those languages, written in Hebrew characters. Yiddish can often be understood with an understanding of German.
Genetically, both of these Jewish groups are related although they may look a lot different and have different cultural backgrounds. DNA studies done on Cohens, both Ashkenazi and Sephardi, match. (Read about it online.)
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Why do Jews compare themselves with white people?
MOST Jews are white, but there are also Jews of other colors.Answer:Generally, white people are Caucasians, who are descended from Yephet (Japheth). See Genesis ch.10. Jews, on the other hand, are a Semitic people, not from Yephet and not originally European. Jews range from white to light-Mediterranean, to darker Mediterranean.
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The Star of David.
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Its origin is the word 'Borghetto", a borough of medieval Venice where most of Venice's Jews lived.
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In effect, Jews and people of Jewish origin were deprived of German citizenship.
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Ashkenazi Jews. Specifically, the plurality of Israeli Jews are of Russian origin. However, the most common origin of Israelis is Levantine (Israeli - from centuries ago, Palestinian, Jordanian, Lebanese, and Syrian) as the Israeli Arabs are almost all Levantine.
What has the author I S Abraham written?
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ancient land on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea claimed as a homeland by both Arabs and Jews?
palestine
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