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I disagree. Judaism is not an ethnic group, it's many absolutely different and disjunct ethnic groups, that only have religion in common. A Jew from Yemen has n
by andresgottlieb 3y ago
I disagree. Judaism is not an ethnic group, it's many absolutely different and disjunct ethnic groups, that only have religion in common. A Jew from Yemen has nothing else in common with a Jew from Poland. Different language, different food,. different music, different physical resemblance, different interpretation of the Torah, etc.
I recommend reading The Invention of the Jewish People, by Shlomo Sand.
As a practical example. When my father (Ashkenazi) married my mother (Sephardic), my father's grandma was devastated, because he was marrying a non-jew.
- hersko 3y agoNot a great example. In the orthodox community it is very common to intermarry between religious Sephardi and Ashkenazi jews. > A Jew from Yemen has nothing else in common with a Jew from Poland 1) They descended from the same people 2) If they are religious, they have a tremendous amount in common
- jb12 3y ago> A Jew from Yemen has nothing else in common with a Jew from Poland Except for the genetics we share, distinct from non-Jews, statistically significantly. I recommend reading "Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People" by Harry Ostrer. We really are the people of the book, aren't we?