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3 unusual facts about Ashkenazi Jews


Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur

Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur or Jews pray, is a painting by Maurycy Gottlieb of 1878, depicting Ashkenazi Jews praying in the synagogue on Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement.

Pokrass

Pokrass (Russian Покрасс) is a common Ashkenazi Jewish surname.

Vivelin of Strasbourg

(d. after 1347) was an Alsatian Jewish financier in the 14th century, presumably one of the richest persons within the Holy Roman Empire in that time.


Adam Baruch

His mother's father was Rabbi Yitzchak Yaakov Wachtfogel, head of the Mea Shearim Yeshiva and Av Beit Din for the Ashkenazi communities.

Golders Green Beth Hamedrash

The Golders Green Beth Hamedrash (popularly known as Munks or GGBH) is an independent Ashkenazi Orthodox Jewish congregation located in Golders Green, London, United Kingdom.

History of the Jews in Gibraltar

Bigamy was illegal in the Kingdom of Great Britain at the time, but the law was apparently not fully operative in Gibraltar, and though polygamy had been banned by Rabbenu Gershom Meor Hagola since approximately 1000 CE, this ban was only accepted by Ashkenazi communities).

Jewish emancipation

Jewish emancipation was the external and internal process in various nations of expanding the rights of Jewish people of Europe, including recognition of rights as equal citizens, and the formal granting of citizenship to individuals.

Justin Keating

Keating then proceeds to explain why he thinks Israel has no right to exist, claiming that the Ashkenazi Jews are descended from Khazars.

Morgenthau Report

The Morgenthau report was a report issued by the United States' commission led by Henry Morgenthau, Sr., Homer H. Johnson, Brigadier General Edgar Jadwin, and from the British side Sir Stuart M. Samuel to investigate reports of mistreatment of Ashkenazi Jews in Poland.

Shmuel-Bukh

Zalman Shazar (president of Israel 1963–1973) believed that it was written by an Ashekenazi rabbi active in Constantinople (now Istanbul) in the second half of the 15th century.

Stephen Greenblatt

Greenblatt self-identifies as an Eastern European Jew, an Ashkenazi, and a Litvak.


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