shalom.

might be worth to say that i’m not jewish, don’t have any jewish heritage, and i don’t practice judaism. i’m myself orthodox but let me explain the matter

the thing is that i’m wikipedian (i edit wikipedia, or other related to it projects), and in various language versions we use the second picture, created by the user TShilo12 in 2009. it shows the map of jewish ethnic groups in 1490. even though it’s picturing 1490, it still does have a lot of mistakes, and it does feel like person who was making this was on a hurry or something, and didn’t have the time to check what he’s gonna publish under the mighty CC BY-SA 3.0 license

so i decided to create my version of it, which is first picture.

by far it’s my most difficult project yet, as i ran through many sites, archives, numerous wikipedia articles to get this atleast more logical than the picture wikipedians use for 14 years

map doesn’t have any arrows, or symbols relating to migration to israel, might create a map for these operations of migrations of various groups

you can post your suggestions on comments. also would be glad for some criticism as well (especially would be nice to hear if the ashkenazi is correct, because i just have the feeling i didn’t quite get it right (especially for the scandinavia and united kingdom))

legend

the more transparent/darker area is. later the group settled here

hachure fill means the second group settled here later than the first one, and/or got more influence in the process

colors

• lime — ashkenazi
• red — sephardim
• blue — italkim
• pink — romaniots
• medium slate blue-ish color — krymchacks, and karaims
• olive — berber jews
• dark blue — jews of bilad el-suden/timbuktu jews
• yellow — beta israel
• cyan — palestinian jews
• teal — babylonian/iraqi jews
• orange peachy color — kurdish jews
• dark purple — yemenite jews
• turquoise — georgian jews
• magenta — mountain jews
• dark green — persian/bukharan jews
• violet — bene israel
• again olive but in india — cochin jews
• dark red — kaifeng jews