Who are the Jews? Are they considered one ethnic group?

Answer 1

Good question. We're not a "race", that's for sure. White racists from hate / separatist groups will tell you that; don't buy it. It's totally ridiculous. Jews are followers of Judaism, yes, as someone else here said. A Jew can either be born (if one's mother or mother's family is or was Jewish, then one is considered to be Jewish) or one can convert into Judaism. Although I should note Judaism does not actively seek converts. The age of that is long since past; like thousands of years past in fact.

Is "Jewish" an ethnicity? Hard question to answer. It's a culture, it's a people, it's a "nation", so to speak (and I'm not just referring to the modern Jewish nation of Israel). But a separate "ethnicity"?? I don't know. Perhaps, perhaps not. I usually answer , when asked my ethnicity, Italian-and-Jewish-American, b/c my father's Italian and my mother's of Jewish descent. Still though I would lean towards calling "Jewish" more of a culture or a people than an ethnicity however. Ashkenazi Jews (Western and Eastern European Jews) and Sephardim (Spanish Jews), as well as Israeli Jews , other Middle Eastern Jews, Falashas (black Ethiopian Jews) , you name it, all have slightly different cultures, and different ethnicities, but we're all a part of the same "people".

Answer 2

Anyone considering 'the Jews' as an ethnic group is either uniformed, very young, bigoted or an/or an idiot. I've met people who are jewish by birth and by marriage (having changed religions). I've met people of the jwiesh faith from Lebanon, Brazil, Ireland etc. -- and I'm thinking you might not have. The baptists, the catholics, the Muslims and the hindu's couldn't be considered an ethnic group either.

Answer 3

Jews are not an ethnic group. They are a religious group.

Answer 4

maximum Jews evaluate themselves to be Semites. So certain, they are an ethnic crew. for sure, if one converts to Judaism then he's jewish by technique of religion yet no longer unavoidably by technique of ethnicity.

Answer 5

Strictly speaking, Jews are followers of Judaism. The term has come to mean people whose ancestors practiced Judaism or most who are associated with Israel.