Ashkenaz (2007)

Directors

Rachel Leah Jones

The story

Ashkenazim – Jews of European origin – are Israel's "white folks." Like most white people in multicultural societies, Ashkenazim do not think of themselves in racial or ethnic terms, but rather as "just people", whereas people from any other cultural group are "ethnic" and "minorities". However, in the Israeli context, sometimes even the minority status of oppressed or disadvantaged groups is denied, because (as was frequently said by interviewees in the film) by now, "aren't we all just Israeli?" Yiddish has been replaced with Hebrew, exile with occupation, the shtetl with the kibbutz. But the paradox of whiteness in Israel is that…

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