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Excerpt from The Jews of Germany: A Lecture Delivered Under the Auspices of the Jewish Community of New York in the Course Jews in Many Lands At the Educational Alliance; April 6th, 5671 1911 German dialect or Yiddish. It is extremely interesting to note that the Gentile writer of the article points out that while the judaeo-gorman differs from the High German in many regards, it is nevertheless just as closely akin to it as many other German dialects which no philologer would dream of excluding from the domain of German speech. This broad use of the term is in ac cordance with traditional Jewish usage. For centuries the Jew ish people has been looked upon as broadly divided into two elements, Ashkenazim or Germans, in which are included all who are in any way descended from the Jewish inhabitants of Ger many, and Sephardim or Spaniards, which term includes all de scended from Iberian ancestors or whose pronunciation of the Hebrew or whose ritual resemble those of the Spanish Jews. It would, however, be historically and scientifically incorrect to treat all these Ashkenazic Jews as one homogeneous element. The separation of centuries and the in uence of differing en vironments have differentiated them greatly. In this way the German Jews proper and their remote descendants in the Slavic East have come to be and to feel themselves as two widely difiering elements.* But even in Germany itself the Jews do not form one uniform, homogeneous element. There is a distinct and eas ily recognizable difference between the Jews of Southern and Western Germany and their confreres of the North and East. This difference extends to speech, modes of thought and de meanor, and even, to a considerable extent, to physical appear ance. In the narrowest application, Ashkenaz or Germany, in the Jewish sense, is limited to the Southern and Southwestern sections, Bavaria, Baden, Wurtemberg, Hessia, the Rhine Prov ince, Alsace and Lorraine. All outside of this region is consid ered as Slavonic, or, at least, non-german. This is further evi denced by the fact that only in this region does the genuine Ger man ritual, Minhag Ashkenaz, obtain. In the other sections of Germany the congregations usually worship according to the Polish ritual, Minhag Polen. However, for the purposes of this article, we shall ignore these distinctions and consider the Jew ish inhabitants of the German empire as a whole as properly in cluded in its scope. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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