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Ashkenazim, n. pl.|æʃkɪˈnɑːzɪm|
[mod.Heb., f. Ashkenaz, the name of a son of Gomer (Gen. x. 3, 1 Chron. i. 6), son of Japheth, son of Noah, typifying a race of people identified with the Ascanians of Phrygia, and, in medieval times, with the Germans.]
Jews of middle and northern Europe as distinguished from Sephardim or Jews of Spain and Portugal. Hence Ashkeˈnazic a., of or belonging to the Ashkenazim.
1839R. M. McCheyne Let. 23 July in Familiar Lett. (1848) 109 One of the Ashkenazim..invited us secretly to his house. 1842Bonar & McCheyne Narr. Mission Jews in 1839 iv. 330 There are no rabbies properly speaking among the Ashkenazim. 1892Zangwill Childr. Ghetto I. 4 All the Ashkenazic tribes lived very much like a happy family. Ibid. 38 Spanish Jews look down on the later imported Ashkenazim, embracing both Poles and Dutchmen in their impartial contempt. 1914East & West XII. 154 The true Zionists are mostly Ashkenazim Jews from all Europe. |