Mizrahi Jews

Mizrahi Jews^[a] are one of the Jewish ethnic groups indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa. Occasionally, Mizrahim also refers to Jews from the Caucasus or Central Asia.^[2]

Overview

The term is often used synonymously with Sephardi Jews,^{[dubious – discuss]} though Sephardic [means or] connotes religious practice and Mizrahi implies place of origin", according to media.^[3]^{[better source needed]}

Mizrahi is a Hebrew word for eastern.^[2]^[3]

The Westerners street in Jerusalem, Israel; coined after the Maghrebi Jews
Children in a Jewish school in Baghdad, 1959
Jewish Departure and Expulsion Memorial from Arab Lands and Iran on the Sherover Promenade, Jerusalem

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- Oppenheimer, Yochai. The Holocaust: A Mizrahi Perspective. Hebrew Studies 51 (2010)National Association of Professors of Hebrew (NAPH). p. 303–328. Retrieved January 6, 2025.
- Mizrachi, Nissim. Responses to Stigmatization in Comparative Perspective (2012)Routledge. ISBN 9780203718513. Retrieved January 6, 2025.
- Behar, Moshe. 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) (April 4, 2017). p. 312–331. doi:10.1080/14725886.2017.1295588. Retrieved January 6, 2025.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 https://justvision.org/glossary/mizrahi-jews#:~:text=(Hebrew%20for%20%22Eastern%22.,Mizrahi%20connotes%20place%20of%20origin Archived 2024-03-12 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2024-03-12