“It’s a good question why a predominantly Sephardic community is led by Ashkenazi seculars,” said Pierre Besnainou, a French-Tunisian who formerly headed the European Jewish Congress and now ...
This framing contradicts research findings that 42% of Jews of Color identify as Ashkenazi and that many Sephardi/Mizrahi Jews do not identify as Jews of Color. While the Social Work school’s ...
Descriptions of Jewish life often divide communities up into three main groups: Ashkenazi, Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews. Spain and Portugal expelled Jewish inhabitants in the late 1400s, sending ...
Despite its size and importance, Latin American Jewry has been relatively under-examined. Estimated to number over 750,000 individuals, the Latin American Jewish community is diverse and includes ...