N’duwa has stated that the voices of white Jews are prioritized in France over the voices of Black Jews, and that Black Jews are not sufficiently recognized within the French-Jewish community. Guershon N’duwa of the Black-Jewish Federation in Paris has criticized the erasure and silencing of Black-Jewish perspectives in discussions about antisemitism and racism. France īlack Jews in France report facing both racism from white people, including white Jews, as well as antisemitism from non-Jews, including Black non-Jews. In 2022, the Ontario Jewish Archives and the No Silence on Race organization created a multi-media exhibit called "Periphery", which highlighted the voices of Jews of color and discussed racism within the Jewish community.
The Queer Mikveh Project is a grassroots project to create safe space that centers LGBT Jews of color. The Multiracial Jewish Network has created a Queer Jews of Color Resource List in order to aid LGBT Jews of color. LGBT Jews of color face unique issues when they navigate through the intersections of racism, antisemitism, homophobia, and transphobia. Congregation Beth Israel of Portland, Oregon has also published a "White-Ashkenazi Awareness Checklist", detailing the white privilege that white Ashkenazi Jews have over Jews of color and non-Ashkenazi Jews. The Multiracial Jewish Network has published a privilege checklist which details the marginalization which is faced by Jews of color. Īshkenormativity is a form of Eurocentrism within Jewish communities that privileges Ashkenazi Jews (often white Ashkenazi Jews of European descent), over Sephardim, Mizrahim, and other Jews of non-Ashkenazi background. The Moses Mordecai family were of German-Jewish descent. The Mordecai House in Raleigh, North Carolina is a notable example of a plantation owned by an Ashkenazi slave owner.
However, some white Ashkenazi Jews also participated in slavery, most of whom were of German descent.
Most Jewish slave owners in the United States and the Caribbean were white Sephardim of Spanish and Portuguese descent. Especially in Suriname, white Sephardi Jews owned many large plantations. Some Jews participated in the European colonization of the Americas, and owned Black slaves in Latin America and the Caribbean, most notably in Brazil and Suriname, but also in Barbados and Jamaica.
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