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Laws were passed to integrate Jews into their host countries, forcing Ashkenazi Jews to adopt family names (they had formerly used patronymics). Newfound inclusion into public life led to cultural growth in the Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment, with its goal of integrating modern European values into Jewish life. [110]
Ashkenazi Jewish culture in Ukraine (3 C, 10 P) Ashkenazi Jewish culture in the United Kingdom (7 C, 2 P) Ashkenazi Jewish culture in the United States (19 C, 17 P)
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 ...
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Map showing percentage of Jews in the Pale of Settlement and Congress Poland, c. 1905. A shtetl is defined by Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern as "an East European market town in private possession of a Polish magnate, inhabited mostly but not exclusively by Jews" and from the 1790s onward and until 1915 shtetls were also "subject to Russian bureaucracy", [7] as the Russian Empire had annexed the ...
A group of over 1,500 Ashkenazi Jews came with him, although some sources claim only 300 actually arrived. [28] At that time, the Jewish population of the Old City of Jerusalem was primarily Sephardic: 200 Ashkenazi Jews compared with a Sephardi community of 1,000. The Ashkenazi immigrants heeded the call of HeHasid, who went from town to town ...
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American people of Austrian-Jewish descent (1 C, 486 P) Pages in category "American people of Ashkenazi-Jewish descent" This category contains only the following page.