Ashkenormativity

English Etymology en Ashkenazi normativity. Noun - The assumption that Jews are Ashkenazi Jews by default, and that Ashkenazi culture is the culture of Judaism at large. en 1317293294 https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/4662/ Sephardi Identity & Legitimacy in the Age of Direct-to-Consumer DNA Tests thesis w:Florida International University Miami Caitlyn Rose Campana 2021 46 Moreover, Sephardi communities have not been the subjects of enough studies, genetics-based or otherwise. Their titular exclusion from some DTC DNA testing companies' reference population lists helps perpetuate an already socially existent Ashkenormativity en w:Jewish Currents Red Line Rebellion Jess Schwalb https://jewishcurrents.org/red-line-rebellion/ 2019-7-3 In a move aimed at avoiding the mistakes made by many of the Jewish institutions in which students have grown up, the guidebook encourages students creating new Jewish organizations to ensure that “JOCSM (Jews of Color, Sephardi, Mizrahi) feel included and comfortable,” to maintain a “[s]upportive network of closed spaces for marginalized people,” and to directly“[a]cknowledge and confront Ashkenormativity.” https://web.archive.org/web/20260214042248/https://jewishcurrents.org/red-line-rebellion 14 February 2026 en https://books.google.com/books?id=5J2aEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT100&dq=%22Ashkenormativity%22 The Wrong Kind of Jew: A Mizrahi Manifesto w:Hen Mazzig New York Post Hill Press Wicked Son 9781642937244 2022 While I do believe that Ashkenormativity has been a detriment to the Mizrahi people and Jews of color, it shouldn't be so much to ask for a world in which all voices are heard and respected. Related terms en Ashkenormative en Judaism