JUDAIC 386 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ottoman Empire, Age Of Enlightenment, Middle Ages
16 Sep 2016
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Lecture four notes: jews of europe, jews never mounted to more than 2% of europe. a. i. Jews were predominantly in urban centers, wherever there were cities there were jews. The more rural you get the less percentage of jewish people. Sometimes jews were forced to live in ghettos or they chose to congregate together for practical reasons like synagogues or cemeteries. Jewish culture is always a cemetery: the jewish are commonly divided into two groups: b. i. Ashkena were the ones who settled in germany and spoke. The sepharac jews lived in spanish speaking countries but different groups of people spoke different variations of the language. b. iii. They often spoke multiple languages when communicating with different communities. (family vs neighbors: there were large migrations of jews in 1492 when they were expelled from spain by the christians. They fled to modern eastern europe which was known as poland-
