Mizrachi

American  

[miz-rah-khee] / mɪzˈrɑ xi /

Or Mizrahi

noun

1. a Zionist movement, founded in 1902, chiefly devoted to furthering the integration of Zionism and religious orthodoxy.

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adjective

1. of or relating to Mizrachi.

Etymology

Origin of Mizrachi

1910–15; < Hebrew mizrāḥī, an acronym from m ( erkā ) z r ( ū ) ḥ ( ān ) ī spiritual center, with pun on mizrāḥī eastern

Example Sentences

He rose to prominence in the Israeli comedy Sallah Shabati, which depicted the hardships of a Mizrachi Jewish immigrant family in Israel of the early 1960s, won him an early Golden Globe award for most promising male newcomer.

From BBC

In “Shining Girls,” premiering Friday on Apple TV+, Elisabeth Moss plays Kirby Mizrachi, a Chicago newspaper archivist who, having survived a brutal attack six years earlier — we are in 1992 — is brought out of her cocoon when the body of another woman is discovered with similar wounds.

From Los Angeles Times

The book taps traditions, including those of Sephardic and Mizrachi cultures, in addition to Ashkenazic.

From New York Times

His background with Mizrachi and Ashkenazic Jewish communities, as well as his experience mentoring and working with Palestinian youth for the past decade, has helped him through two sleepless night of powerful conversations—that, plus his love of freshly brewed coffee.

From Slate

In 2011, after hearing a visiting lecturer from Europe extol human rights as the “international moral language,” Professor Mizrachi had an aha moment.

From New York Times