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Ashkenazi Jews in Israel; Total population; 2.8 million (full or partial Ashkenazi Jewish descent) [1] [2] Regions with significant populations; Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa and many other places: Languages; Hebrew (Main language for all generations); Older generation: Yiddish, Russian, Polish and other languages of countries that Ashkenazi Jews ...
Khazar Khaganate, 650–850. The Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry, often called the Khazar myth by its critics, [1] [2] is a largely abandoned historical hypothesis that postulated that Ashkenazi Jews were primarily, or to a large extent, descended from Khazars, a multi-ethnic conglomerate of mostly Turkic peoples who formed a semi-nomadic khanate in and around the northern and central ...
The ethnic group with highest recorded TFR is the Bedouin of Negev. Their TFR was reported at 10.06 in 1998, and 5.73 in 2009. TFR is also very high among Haredi Jews. For Ashkenazi Haredim, the TFR rose from 6.91 in 1980 to 8.51 in 1996. The figure for 2008 is estimated to be even higher.
[105] [106] [107] Most American Jews are Ashkenazi Jews who descend from Jewish populations of Central and Eastern Europe and are considered white unless they are Ashkenazi Jews of color. [citation needed] Many American Jews identify themselves as being both Jewish and white, while many solely identify as Jewish, resisting this identification ...
Ashkenazi Jewish intelligence, often colloquially referred to as "Jewish genius", [1] [2] is the stereotype [3] that Ashkenazi Jews tend to have a higher intelligence than other ethnic groups. Background
A 2009 study on various European and Near Eastern ethnic groups found Ashkenazi Jews to show closer Genetic distance with Italians, Greeks, Germans, and other European groups than what they show with Levantine groups such as Druze and Palestinians. Though it also found that the Ashkenazi Jews were mainly a population "clearly of southern ...
The country is widely described as a melting pot for the various Jewish ethnic divisions, primarily consisting of Ashkenazi Jews, Sephardic Jews, and Mizrahi Jews, as well as many smaller Jewish communities, such as the Beta Israel, the Cochin Jews, the Bene Israel, and the Karaite Jews, among others.
Ashkenazi Jewish culture later spread in the 16th century into Eastern Europe, where their rite replaced that of existing Jewish communities whom some scholars believe to have been larger in demographics than the Ashkenazi Jews themselves, [10] and then to all parts of the world with the migrations of Jews who identified as "Ashkenazi Jews".