Sephardi Jews were more receptive to modern trade education than Orthodox Ashkenazi Jews.

Evidence

No wonder then that they were more receptive to most of the trade education and work initiatives whereas Orthodox Ashkenazi circles usually opposed any kind of modern education. Women were often the neediest among the poor and were desperate to find work as this episode of the hundreds of applicants to Bezalel demonstrates. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 586

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 586