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To: SilentZ who wrote (144554)	4/10/2002 5:31:39 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1578046

>In any case, the Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews are the two branches of European Jewry. The Semitic Jew is one of the tribes of the Semites that also includes the Arabs. The Semites were mostly from Southwestern Asia and Northern Africa. It was the Semitic Jews who complained of discrimination. Huh? Both the Ashkenazis and Sephardis were descended from "Semitic" Jews who had been kicked out of Palestine... the distinction is in where their ancestors ended up. I'm not sure where you get your usage of the word "Semitic". The Jews who were in the Middle East for the centuries prior to the 19th, are considered Sephardic because many of them fled there from Spain during the Inquisition... of course, perhaps what you refer to as "Semitic" Jews are the ones whose ancestors never left the Middle East during any of the expulsions from Palestine, however, they're classified as Sephardic Jews. Z, I am only going on what I have read in the past plus the definitions that Webster's online uses. Currently, the Semites are seen as a group of peoples, emanating from SWestern Asia, and the Semitic Jews as one tribe in that group. The Sephardic and Askenazi Jews are treated as separate although their origins may trace back to the Semitic Jews [it doesn't say that but I am speculating]. When I studied Jewish history, that's the way I learned it pretty much.......although I never heard of the Khazars. And I know my Isreali friends talked of the Semitic Jews as being something separate in modern day Israel. But check Merriam-Websters online.....that's where I got the definitions that I posted to this thread. ted