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A hanging hamsa in Tunisia. The hamsa (Arabic: خمسة, romanized: khamsa, lit. 'five', referring to images of 'the five fingers of the hand'), [1] [2] [3] also known as the hand of Fatima, [4] is a palm-shaped amulet popular throughout North Africa and in the Middle East and commonly used in jewellery and wall hangings.
Judeo-Navarro-Aragonese with a significant Jewish koiné of Tudela (extinct) [citation needed] Judeo-Asturleonese (extinct, but still have some lexical traces in Judeo-Spanish) [citation needed] Judeo-French (Zarphatic): [1] a group of Jewish northern oïl languages and their dialects (extinct)
An ethnonym is the name applied to a given ethnic group. Ethnonyms can be divided into two categories: exonyms (where the name of the ethnic group has been created by another group of people) and autonyms or endonyms (self-designation; where the name is created and used by the ethnic group itself).
In North American and other diaspora Jewish communities, the use of "shiksa" reflects more social complexities than merely being a mild insult to non-Jewish women. A woman can only be a shiksa if she is perceived as such by Jewish people, usually Jewish men, making the term difficult to define; the Los Angeles Review of Books suggested there ...
“The hamsa is one of the oldest Jewish symbols, with imagery found on ancient Israelite tombs dating back to the 8th century BCE,” Rabbi Judy Greenfeld says. “The hamsa with the evil eye is ...
The Hebrew name is a Jewish practice rooted in the practices of early Jewish communities and Judaism. [4] This Hebrew name is used for religious purposes, such as when the child is called to read the Torah at their b'nei mitzvah .
Judeo-Italian (or Judaeo-Italian, Judæo-Italian, and other names including Italkian) is a groups of endangered and extinct Jewish dialects, with only about 200 speakers in Italy and 250 total speakers today. [2] The dialects are one of the Italian languages and are a subgrouping of the Judeo-Romance Languages. [3]
Italian Jews (Italian: ebrei italiani; Hebrew: יהודים איטלקים ) or Roman Jews (Italian: ebrei romani; Hebrew: יהודים רומים ) can be used in a broad sense to mean all Jews living in or with roots in Italy, or, in a narrower sense, to mean the Italkim, an ancient community living in Italy since the Ancient Roman era ...