I realized when filling out the census form last year that nothing in their lists really described my ethnic or national origins. Caucasian, yes, but German? No way! Czech? Polish? Maybe our families were there for many generations but ultimately so many were chased or frightened out of all those places. It was then I thought that for Am…
I realized when filling out the census form last year that nothing in their lists really described my ethnic or national origins. Caucasian, yes, but German? No way! Czech? Polish? Maybe our families were there for many generations but ultimately so many were chased or frightened out of all those places. It was then I thought that for American Jews, the census ought to have Ashkenazi & Sephardic as choices.
Maybe but not all Jews are aware of their origins. And not all Jews are white. The Spanish Insurrection displaced Jews from Spain and they ended up all over Europe and Jerusalem. Others were in Ethiopia and they were black.
I realized when filling out the census form last year that nothing in their lists really described my ethnic or national origins. Caucasian, yes, but German? No way! Czech? Polish? Maybe our families were there for many generations but ultimately so many were chased or frightened out of all those places. It was then I thought that for American Jews, the census ought to have Ashkenazi & Sephardic as choices.
Maybe but not all Jews are aware of their origins. And not all Jews are white. The Spanish Insurrection displaced Jews from Spain and they ended up all over Europe and Jerusalem. Others were in Ethiopia and they were black.