Editing Sephardic Jews (section)

== Relations with Ashkenazim ==
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During the [[Middle Ages|medieval period]], a considerable number of [[Ashkenazi Jews]] from historic "Ashkenaz" (Germany and France) had moved to study [[Kabbalah]] and Torah under the guidance of Sephardic Jewish Rabbis in Iberia. These Ashkenazi Jews who assimilated into the Sephardic society eventually gained the surnames "[[Ashkenazi (surname)|Ashkenazi]]"<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://dbs.bh.org.il/familyname/ashkenazi |title="Ashkenazi" surname |access-date=30 July 2020 |archive-date=7 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807043054/https://dbs.bh.org.il/familyname/ashkenazi |url-status=live }}</ref> if they came from Germany and "[[Sarfati|Zarfati]]" if they came from France.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://dbs.bh.org.il/familyname/zarfati |title="Zarfati" surname |access-date=31 July 2020 |archive-date=7 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807021423/https://dbs.bh.org.il/familyname/zarfati |url-status=live }}</ref>

Sephardi-Ashkenazi relations have at times been strained by racial tension, with both sides claiming the inferiority of the other, based upon such features as physical traits and culture.<ref>{{cite book|author1=John M. Efron|title=German Jewry and the Allure of the Sephardic|date=2015|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-1-4008-7419-4|page=97}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author1=Jordan Paper|title=The Theology of the Chinese Jews, 1000–1850|date=2012|publisher=Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press|isbn=978-1-55458-403-1|page=7}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author1=Pearl Goodman|title=Peril: From Jackboots to Jack Benny|date=2014|publisher=Bridgeross Communications|isbn=978-0-9878244-8-6|pages=248–9}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author1=Alan Arian|title=Security Threatened: Surveying Israeli Opinion on Peace and War|url=https://archive.org/details/securitythreaten00aria|url-access=limited|date=1995|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-49925-5|page=[https://archive.org/details/securitythreaten00aria/page/n158 147]|edition=illustrated}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author1=David Shasha|title=Understanding the Sephardi-Ashkenazi Split|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-shasha/understanding-the-sephard_b_541033.html?ir=Australia|access-date=16 December 2015|work=The Huffington Post|date=20 June 2010|archive-date=22 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222153033/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-shasha/understanding-the-sephard_b_541033.html?ir=Australia|url-status=live}}</ref>

In some instances, Sephardi Jews have joined Ashkenazi communities, and have intermarried.<ref>Shahar, Charles. "A Comprehensive Study of the Ultra Orthodox Community of Greater Montreal (2003)." Federation CJA (Montreal). 2003.</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=World On Fire |last=Chua |first=Amy |publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing |year=2003 |isbn=978-0-385-72186-8 |page=[https://archive.org/details/worldonfirehowex00chua_0/page/217 217] |url=https://archive.org/details/worldonfirehowex00chua_0/page/217 }}</ref>