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Why are Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews divided? |
Travel Info I don't understand why Ashkenazi Jews feel different about Sephardic Jews and vice versa. I am half Ashkenazi and half Sephardic and I don't understand what is the difference. I am a teenager and i want to know. Travel Tips In my experience there is no division between the two. People get along great. EDIT: Aha, see I didn't understand what it was you were asking. See Ashkenazim and Sephardic Jews developed different customs and the like due to being in different places. While this doesn't matter that much, it still causes as you said the creation of two synagogues. The Sepharadim want to pray by Sephardic custom, with Sephardic tunes and so forth, while the Ashkenazim prefer Ashkenazi style. It's simply a matter of slightly different cultures. If your Rabbi is insensitive towards Sephardim then you should say something to him. That is not a standard Ashkenazi view, and shouldn't be tolerated. Others different heritage. just like northern Italians and Sicilians don't get along, or northeen Irish and Irish. Huh? Since when? I think most Ashkenazim and Sephardim don't think of themselves as such, but rather as just Jews. Sadly, you are right. Just like any other group of people, where there are differences in customs the two groups will frequently look upon each other as "outsiders", and one will think themselves "better" than the other. The answerer who talked about the divide between northern and southern Italians was correct. Traditionally, the Ashkenazic Jews looked upon the Sephardim as less cultured than they--each group has its own particular style of cooking, they pronounce certain Hebrew letters differently, and so on. At one time, the Ashkenazic Jews of San Francisco even thought about buying Baja California so that their Sephardic "cousins" could resettle there. It's not something anyone is proud of and you'd think that in this day and age people would be more enlightened--but there you are. E-mail me and I can probably get you more info if you'd like. I'm Jewish. I really don't know but that guy who idolize Hitler is a total idiot I don't know how it is in the US but in Israel this division is beginning to disappear. The reason for this division, has Mark said, was formed due to hundreds of years in the diaspora. The European Jews developed their own sub-culture which was very unic and different than the Jews in the Arabic nations. They spoke different languages ( Idish Vs. Ladino or Arabic), they had differences in Halacha, in the way they interpreted thee bible, Talmud, etc, of course in their foods, traditions and so on. Don't forget that there were also differences in the appearance (both clothing and genetics). So when these two cultures met in Israel during the 20th century, it was quite natural that they had problems to accept each other. I wont get into analyze all the social problems of Sepharadim who came to Israel after its establishment, but today so many young people are "mixed" and are creating new families which sometimes has 6-8 different roots, so when you're asking them if they are Ashkenazi or Sephardi there is no answer to that. |
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