Ashkenazim

Ashkenazim, také známý jako Ashkenazi Jews, are a Jewish diaspora group that established communities throughout Central Europe, Eastern Europe, and the Balkans. Ashkenazim byl patrně nejvíce perzekuován ze všech židovských diaspora groups, jelikož byl od 11. století podrobován pogroms.

The Jews of Speyer and other German cities were massacred by crusaders">crusaders" en route to the Levant in 1096, and the Jews were victims of conspiracy theories such as the "blood libel" myth. Large Jewish communities developed in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Lithuania, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Slovenia, and Croatia, and Jews made important contributions to philosophy, scholarship, literature, art, music, and science. V roce 1931 tvořil Aškenázim 92% světové židovské populace, ale Holocaust vedl k masovému vyvraždění nejméně 6 000 000 Židů, včetně většiny Polish Jews.

Většina přeživších Aškenázských Židů se stala uprchlíky v důsledku genocidy 1942-1945 a devastace World War II, and many made aliyah to Israel, where they settled. Today, there are between 10,000,000 až 11,200,000 Ashkenazim distributed across the world, with the largest communities being in the United States (5-6,000,000 people), Israel (2,800,000 people), and Russia (as many as 500,000 people).

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