Moshe mizrahi biography definition
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Asher Shimon Mizrahi was born in the old city of Jerusalem in to father Yishak Mizrahi who was a well-known torah scholar and teacher. After the first few years of Asher’s life, his family moved outside of the old city walls and built a new home across from the Sephardic Synagogue in the newly established neighborhood Montefiore, known today as Yamin Moshe. The Mizrahi family made their living by renting the use of their wooden oven for members of the community to do their cooking and baking. Residents of the neighborhood would bring biskochos borrekas (stuffed phyllo dough pastries) and Hamin (a slow cooked stew that is the staple meal for Shabbat)to be cooked in the Mizrahi oven.
From an early age, people in the community took notice of Asher Mizrahi’s pleasant voice and musical talents, and he began to earn money working as a local hazzan and Ud musician. He also supported himself by selling embroidered “
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Mizrahi Jews in Israel
Ethnic group
Ethnic group
| Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa, Be'er Sheva and many other places | |
| Hebrew (Main language for all generations); Older generation: Arabic language (Judeo-Arabic languages) and other languages like Judeo-Persian, Kurdish, Georgian, Urdu, Tamil, Malayalam, Marathi, Bukhori, Juhuri | |
| Sephardic Judaism, Yemenite Nusach |
Mizrahi Jews constitute one of the largest Jewish ethnic divisions among Israeli Jews. Mizrahi Jews are descended from Jews who lived in West Asia, Central Asia, North Africa and parts of the North Caucasus, who had lived for many generations beneath Muslim rule during the mittpunkt Ages. The vast majority of them left the Muslim-majority countries during the Arab–Israeli conflict, in what is known as the Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries. A statistic funnen that 45% of Jewish Israelis identified as either Mizrahi or Sephardic.[1]
History
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[edit]Main article: Jewish exodu
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Introduction
1The article explores the social and spatial complexity of the existence of a subgroup of Jewish immigrants from Arab and Islamic countries in a central urban area, such as the Musrara neighbourhood in the city of Jerusalem, before and after the major political event of the War, affecting and shaping the whole Middle East.
2The Musrara/Morashà neighbourhood1 is an area of Jerusalem bordering the ultra-Orthodox area of Mea’ Sharim, the Old City, the Russian Compound and road no. 1, the main transport link, crossing the city from north to south and connecting the new fortress-style neighborhoods (some säga, settlements) Pisgat Zeev with the south edge of the city, the industrial and commercial area of Talpiot. This main road used to be for 19 years the historical boundary between East and West Jerusalem, that fryst vatten between the Jewish State of Israel and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Since , there used to run a separation wall – partly built in concrete and partly made o