Ashkenazi
Pronunciations
Ashkenazi | (AHSH-kih-NAH-zee) | listen |
Definitions
n. (plural) Jews who originate from Germany and France.
adj. Of or relating to the culture, customs, or ancestry of the Ashkenazi group of Jews.
Example Sentences
"Most Ashkenazim have a deep affinity for Ashkenazi food." (Glinert)
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"Ashkenazim generally don't eat rice and legumes on Pesach, while Sephardim do." (JPS)
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Languages of Origin
- Textual Hebrew
Etymology
אשכנזי ashkenazi 'from Ashkenaz' where "Medieval rabbis dubbed Germany Ashkenaz, after a passage in Jeremiah (51:27), and decided that after the Flood, one of Noah's great-grandsons, named Ashkenaz, had settled in Germany" (Rosten).
- Jews: Jews of diverse religious backgrounds and organizational involvements
- North America
- Great Britain
- South Africa
- Australia / New Zealand
- The New Joys of Yiddish, by Leo Rosten and Lawrence Bush (New York, 2003[1968]).
- The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, (Philadelphia, 2001).
- The Joys of Hebrew, by Lewis Glinert (New York, 1992).
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Alternative Spellings
Ashkenazim, Ashkenazis, Ashkenazees, Ashkenazeem
Notes
Plural Ashkenazim.
See also Ashkenazic, Sephardi, and Mizrachi.
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