Categories
Jewish identity can be separated into four separate, independent parts:
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- Ethnic/Ancestral Judaism (those of Ashkenazi, Sephardi, or Mizrahi Jewish ancestry, or more specifically, those Jews who by all secular accounts are the descendants of the those who were depopulated by the Romans in c.100 CE, resulting in the Jewish Diaspora)
- Religious Judaism (those Jews who follow the tenets of the Jewish religion)
- Cultural Judaism (those Jews who celebrate Jewish holidays and were "raised in a Jewish home").
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“All cultural change reduces itself to a difference of categories. All revolutions, whether in the sciences or world history, occur merely because spirit has changed its categories in order to understand and examine what belongs to it, in order to possess and grasp itself in a truer, deeper, more intimate and unified manner.”
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