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Jew - Usage note. Some uses of the term "Jew" are tainted by historic anti-Jewish bigotry. The correct adjectival form is "Jewish"; the use of "Jew" as an adjective (as in "Jew lawyer" rather than "Jewish lawyer") is associated with bigotry. The use of "Jew" or "jew" as a verb (as in "to jew someone down": to bargain for a lower price) is generally seen as an extremely offensive expression based on stereotypes. Even when used in a grammatically correct manner as a noun, the term "Jew" can objectify a ...

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Jews: Encyclopedia II - Jew - Who is a Jew? Judaism shares some of the characteristics of a nation, an ethnicity, a religion, and a culture, making the definition of who is a Jew vary slightly depending on whether a religious or national approach to identity is used. For discussions of the religious views on who is a Jew and how these views differ from each other, please see Who is a Jew?. Generally, in modern secular usage, Jews include three groups: people who practice Judaism and have a Jewish ethnic background (sometimes including those who do not have strictly matrilineal descent ...

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Bukharan Jews - Culture

Bukharan Jews - Notable Bukharan Jews

Jews: Encyclopedia - Yemenite Jews

Yemenite Jews (תֵּימָנִי, Standard Hebrew Temani, Tiberian Hebrew Têmānî; plural תֵּימָנִים, Standard Hebrew Temanim, Tiberian Hebrew Têmānîm) are those Jews who live, or whose recent ancestors lived, in Yemen (תֵּימָן "far south", Standard Hebrew Teman, Tiberian Hebrew Têmān), on the southern tip of the Arabian peninsula. They are sometimes considered to be Mizrahi. Yemenite Jews - History of the community. Loc ...

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Jews: Encyclopedia - Sephardi Jews

Israel: nn Europe: nn South Africa: nn Oceania: nn • Ashkenazi Jews • Mizrahi Jews • Other Jewish groups Sephardi Jews (ספרדי, Standard Hebrew Səfardi, Tiberian Hebrew Səp̄ardî; plural Sephardim: ספרדים, Standard Hebrew Sfaradim, Tiberian Hebrew Səp̄ardîm< ...

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Sephardi Jews - Other Sephardic Pedigrees

Jews: Encyclopedia - Black Jews

Black Jews may refer to a number of different religious and ethnic groups. Black Jews - List of Black Jews. The following is a list of some prominent Black Jews, fitting some of the definitions above: Darrin Bell, cartoonist (Jewish mother) Lisa Bonet, actress (Jewish mother) Troy Beyer, actress (Jewish father) David Bluthenthal, basketball player with the Sacramento Kings Nell Carter, actress & singer (converted) Craig David, singer (Jewish gran ...

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Black Jews - List of Black Jews

Jews: Encyclopedia - Ashkenazi Jews

Israel: app. 3.7 mil. [3] Europe: app. 1.7 mil. [4] Argentina: nn South Africa: nn Oceania: nn • Sephardi Jews • Mizrahi Jews • Other Jewish groups Ashkenazi Jews, also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim (אַשְׁכֲּנָזִי אַשְׁכֲּנָזִים Standard Hebrew, Aškanazi, Aškanazim, Tiberian Hebrew, ʾAškănāzî, ʾAš ...

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Ashkenazi Jews - Origin of Ashkenazim

Ashkenazi Jews - Ashkenazi Migrations throughout the High and Late Middle Ages

Ashkenazi Jews - Modern history

Ashkenazi Jews - Ashkenazi Jewry and the Holocaust

Ashkenazi Jews - Ashkenazi Chief Rabbis in the Yishuv and Israel

Jews: Encyclopedia - Wandering Jew

The Wandering Jew is a figure from Christian folklore. The legend relates that a Jewish shoemaker, taunting Jesus on the way to crucifixion, was told by Him "thou shalt go on forever till I return". The shoemaker was thus punished for his indiscretion by being forced to wander the earth until the second coming of Jesus. Others trace it to the Matthew 16:28: Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom. Whe ...

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Jews: Encyclopedia - Antiquities of the Jews

Antiquities of the Jews was a work published by the Jewish historian Josephus, also known as Flavius Josephus, about 93-4 CE (cf. AJ XX.267, the overlap mentioned therein occurred from 1.9.93 to 14.3.94). The extant copies of this work, which all derive from Christian sources, even the recently-recovered Arabic version, contain two passages about Jesus. The long one has come to be known as the Testimonium Flavianum. If genuine, it is the earliest record of Jesus in Jewish sources, and as such is sometimes cited ...

Jews: Encyclopedia - African Jew

Ancient communities of African Jews, in one of the meanings above, would include the Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews of North Africa, as well as a number of Black African groups, specifically the Lemba of Malawi, Zimbabwe, and the South African region of Venda who claim descent from King Solomon, as well as the Beta Israel of Ethiopia claim descent from the Tribe of Dan, although their actual history is controversial. The Igbos a Maghrebi (West African) Jewish community in Nigeria also claim descent from ...

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African Jew - Ancient Jewish communities

Jews: Encyclopedia - Cochin Jews

Kerala 52 (including Cochin, Ernakulam, Parur, Aluva) USA Bene Israel Cochin Jews Other Jewish groups Cochin Jews, also called Malabar Jews are the ancient Jews and their descendants of the South Indian port city of Cochin. They traditionally spoke Judæo-Malayalam, a form of the Malayalam tongue, native to the state of Kerala, in India. Several rounds of immigration of the Jewish diaspora into Kerala led to a diversity amongst the C ...

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Jews: Encyclopedia - American Jews

American Jews (also commonly Jewish Americans) are Americans of Jewish descent or religion who maintain a connection to the Jewish community, either through actively practicing Judaism or through cultural and historical affiliation. The United States contains the world's largest Jewish population, on the same scale with Israel, and has the largest population of Ashkenazi Jews. American Jews span a range from the Haredi communities to the large segment of Jews who are entirely secular. American Jews - Histor ...

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American Jews - Assimilation and Population Changes

American Jews - Jewish contributions to the United States

Jews: Encyclopedia - Baghdadi Jews

The Baghdadi Jews are one of the main Jewish communities of India. Despite what their name suggests, the community consists not only of expatriate Mesopotamian Jews, but also Bukharan and Persian Jews. The community developed as a result of Jews fleeing religious persecution in Muslim lands to the northwest of India during the British imperial era. Unlike other Jewish communities in India whose oral tradition attest to a presence in India going back as long as 2000 years, the Baghdadi communities were established relatively rec ...

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Baghdadi Jews - External link

Jews: Encyclopedia - Belmonte Jews

The Belmonte Jews are a community that survived in secrecy for hundreds of years by maintaining a tradition of avoiding intermarriage and by hiding all the external signs of their faith. The Jewish community in Belmonte, Portugal goes back to the 12th Century and they were only discovered in the 20th century by an Ashkenazi captain of the Portuguese army. Their rich Sephardic tradition of Crypto-Judaism is unique. Only recently did they contact other Jews and they now claim to profess Orthodox Judaism, althou ...

Jews: Encyclopedia - Who is a Jew?

Who is a Jew? (Hebrew: ?מיהו יהודי) is the name of the religious, social and political debate on the exact definition of which person can be called Jewish. As Judaism shares some of the characteristics of a nation, a religion, an ethnicity, and a culture, the definition of who is a Jew may vary, depending on whether a religious, sociological, or national approach to identity is used. "Who is a Jew?" has also become a well-known rhetorical question within Judaism, referring to a cultural and religious battle to define who ...

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Who is a Jew? - Perspectives

Who is a Jew? - The controversy

Who is a Jew? - Three basic disputes

Who is a Jew? - Religious definitions

Who is a Jew? - Definitions in the State of Israel

Who is a Jew? - Other approaches to Jewish identity

Who is a Jew? - Non-religious ethnic definition

Who is a Jew? - Half-Jewish

Jews: Encyclopedia II - Jew - Who is a Jew?

Judaism shares some of the characteristics of a nation, an ethnicity, a religion, and a culture, making the definition of who is a Jew vary slightly depending on whether a religious or national approach to identity is used. For discussions of the religious views on who is a Jew and how these views differ from each other, please see Who is a Jew?. Generally, in modern secular usage, Jews include three groups: people who practice Judaism and have a Jewish ethnic background (sometimes including those who do not have strictly matrilineal descent ...

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