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Doorposts and Gates: How Jews Have Subdivided Themselves Through History

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

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Jews in Germany

This is a group of people who, in their most recent few centuries of history, have created a whole separate society from the gentile society around them. Write, and their everyday language is yiddish. They have a literature in yiddish; eventually theyhave yiddish theatre too. You now have small saphartic group in the west totally looking down on these ashkanazi in the east. There's also some askanazi who remain in germany. It's difficult because they're very persecuted. But some manage to hang on. And they're able to stay ly because there are some small states, principalities around germany that say we could use

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