ABSTRACT
If you read ten or fifteen general history books on Jewish history, starting from H. Graetz onwards, it is clearly seen that despite the established idea of the Jewish Diaspora – the dispersion of the Jews all over the world - most recorded historical events and most historians concentrate mainly on the European Jews (Ashkenazim), Mediterranean Jews with Spanish roots (Sefardim), and to a lesser degree on the Babylonian, the Persian Jews. The two last centuries has added American Jews, Russian Jews, and Israelis to this list; Chinese and Indian Jews could be mentioned as an exception – a sort of a curiosity so to speak – and Central Asian Jews are hardly mentioned at all and usually do not even receive a footnote.
