10 Minute Topics: Ashkenazim Jews

The next in a weekly series of 10 minute topics teaching about various topics within Judaism. This week's topic is: Ashkenazim Jews.

The Ashkenazim Jews are Jews and their descendents who lived in communities along the Rhine River in western Germany and northern France. The term Ashkenazi is a medieval term that specifically refers to these Jewish communities. These communities later spread into Lithuania and Poland and then into the wider world. Ashkenazim are identified primarily with German-Jewish customs.

Sources:
Ashkenazim (http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/Ashkenazim.html)

Ashkenazi Jews (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jews)

Can Sephardic Judaism be reconstructed? (http://www.jcpa.org/dje/articles3/sephardic.htm)

Jewish Agency: 13.2 Million Jews Worldwide on the Eve of Rosh Hashanah, 5768 (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/903585.html)

Imperialism and Jewish Society, 200 B.C.E. to 640 C.E. (http://books.google.com/)

The Beginnings of Judaism: Boundaries, Varieties, and Uncertainties (http://books.google.com/)

Jewish Genius (https://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/jewish-genius-10855?page=all­)

Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence (http://homepage.mac.com/harpend/.Public/AshkenaziIQ.jbiosocsci.pdf)

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[IntelligentCreature]

Do you know anything about the Zionist organization, how it came to be and its political role today?

[becomingjewishorg]

@IntelligentCreature

Which Zionist organization?

[shmenge71]

Very interesting. Thanks for the vid. My parents still remember the little Jewish villages that were everywhere in south east Poland before the SS destroyed them. Still lots of remnants/artifact  of the Jewish people left where I grew up.

[ForgottenEasternJews]

WOW!! If you look at the picture (0.38) you will see half of those kids look middle eastern.

[becomingjewishorg]

@fungusamogus

The WZO is still very active today. It has a long history that started in the late 1890's. You can read a brief history at jewishvirtuallibrary*org or (if you read Hebrew) at their site wzo*org*il.

[melbourneopera]

God bless all followers of the People of the Books..... Nice Video