Mizrahi Jews

descendants of the local Jewish populations of North Africa and the Middle East

Mizrahi Jews, or Mizrahim, are Jews who originally lived in the Middle East and North Africa. Occasionally, the term also refers to Jews from the Caucasus or Central Asia.[1]

Overview

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The term is often used synonymously with Sephardi Jews,[dubious ] though Sephardic [means or] connotes religious practice and Mizrahi implies place of origin", according to media.[2][better source needed]

Mizrahi is a Hebrew word for eastern.[1][2]

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References

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  1. 1.0 1.1
    • Oppenheimer, Yochai (2010). "The Holocaust: A Mizrahi Perspective". Hebrew Studies. 51. National Association of Professors of Hebrew (NAPH): 303–328. JSTOR 27913975. Retrieved January 6, 2025.
    • Mizrachi, Nissim; Herzog, Hanna (2012). "Participatory destigmatization strategies among Palestinian citizens, Ethiopian Jews and Mizrahi Jews in Israel". Responses to Stigmatization in Comparative Perspective (1 ed.). Routledge. ISBN 9780203718513. Retrieved January 6, 2025.
    • Behar, Moshe (April 4, 2017). "1911: the birth of the Mizrahi–Ashkenazi controversy". Journal of Modern Jewish Studies. 16 (2: Special Section: Fusing Arab Nahda, European Haskalah and Euro-Zionism: Eastern Jewish thought in late-Ottoman and post-Ottoman Palestine): 312–331. doi:10.1080/14725886.2017.1295588. Retrieved January 6, 2025.
  2. 2.0 2.1 https://justvision.org/glossary/mizrahi-jews#:~:text=(Hebrew%20for%20%22Eastern%22.,Mizrahi%20connotes%20place%20of%20origin. Retrieved 2024-03-12