NORTH AMERICAN JEWRY-FREE OF PERSECUTION, FOR HOW LONG?

Taken from a book” GERMANY” by the Leon Amiel Publisher New York-Paris

Centuries before the unification of the separate states into one Germany, the Jews saw that region as one unit, which they called Ashkenaz, and which more or less coincides with the borders of Germany. Because of its geographical position the Jewish community of Germany exercised influence on the whole of European, Jewry eastern as well as western. Communities far beyond its borders prayed from its prayer books, adopted its customs, and were molded by the impact of its religious and cultural movements. Indeed the very term Ashkenazi became the accepted description for European Jewry as a whole, just as the term Sephardi, from the Hebrew word for Spain, has come to embrace, the many strands of Oriental Jewry. Sad it is to reflect that both these seminal communities were uprooted in their fullest effloresce, the latter by the fury of the Inquisition, the former by the terror of the Holocaust.

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