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From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: Is Martillo a Typical Sefardim?
Message-ID: <62@unc.unc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Sep-85 11:31:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: unc.62
Posted: Wed Sep 11 11:31:00 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 12-Sep-85 11:23:03 EDT
References: <11290@rochester.UUCP> <3780083@csd2.UUCP>
Reply-To: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
Organization: CS Dept, U. of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Summary: 

In article <3780083@csd2.UUCP> martillo@csd2.UUCP (Joachim Martillo) writes:
>
>>(4)  Ashkenazik Jews are responsible  for  all  assimilation
>>     and assimilation is entirely an Ashkenazik problem.
>
>While there has been Sefardic assimilation in the past and the present
>time, the vast majority of such problems among  the Sefardic community
>nowadays  can be   traced   to   Ashkenazi  interference in    Sefardi
>communities since the middle 19th century.

Don't forget that the first American Jewish group to assimilate
and (for the most part) disappear, was the first wave of immigration
to arrive.  These were Sephardim.  The Sephardi Jews in Holland two
or three hundred years ago were more assimilated than the Askenazim
to the east during those years.  I hypothesize that the level of
assimilation is not so much a measure of the quality of the Talmud
interpretations as it is influenced by the attitude of the surrounding
gentile community.

	Frank Silbermann