As of 2005, 61 percent of Israeli Jews were of full or partial Mizrahi ancestry. “Mizrahim”, as a term, is perceived as a form of Orientalism, similar to the ways in which Westjuden (Jews from ...

Descriptions of Jewish life often divide communities up into three main groups: Ashkenazi, Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews. Spain and Portugal expelled Jewish inhabitants in the late 1400s, sending ...