Mizrahi Jews Furthermore, the percentage of Mizrahim who seek a university education remains low compared to second-generation immigrant groups of Ashkenazi origin, such as Russians. According to a survey by the Adva Center, the average income of Ashkenazim was 36 percent higher than that of Mizrahim in 2004. [[Category:Jewish ethnic groups]] [[Category:Ethnic groups in Israel]] [[Category:Jews and Judaism in Western Asia]] [[Category:Mizrahi Jews topics| ]] [[Category:Semitic-speaking peoples]] Mizrahi Jews Mizrahi Jews, Mizrahim (), also referred to as Edot HaMizrach (; "Communities of the East"; Mizrahi Hebrew: '), ("Sons of the East"), or Oriental Jews, are descendants of local Jewish communities in the
Sephardi Hebrew the Ashkenazi pronunciation was derived from that of Palestine in Geonic times (7th-11th centuries) and that the Sephardi pronunciation was derived from that of Babylonia. The theory was supported by the fact that in some respects, Ashkenazi Hebrew resembles the western dialect of Syriac, and Sephardi Hebrew resembles the eastern dialect: Eastern Syriac "Peshitta" as against Western Syriac "Peshito". Ashkenazi Hebrew, in its written form, also resembles Palestinian Hebrew in its tendency to "malē" spellings (see Mater lectionis). Others, including Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, believed that the distinction is more ancient and represents the distinction between the Judaean and Galilean dialects