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Bookmark or Share- Ashkenazi | Definition & Facts | BritannicaAshkenazi, member of the Jews who lived in the Rhineland valley and in neighbouring France before their migration eastward to Slavic lands (e.g., Poland, Lithuania, Russia) after the Crusades (11th–13th century) and their descendants.
- Who Are Ashkenazi Jews? - My Jewish LearningAshkenazi Jews are the Jewish ethnic identity most readily recognized by North Americans — the culture of matzah balls, black-hatted Hasidim and Yiddish. This ethnicity originated in medieval Germany.
- Ashkenaz - WikipediaGiven the close links between the Jewish communities of France and Germany following the Carolingian unification, the term Ashkenazi came to refer to both the Jews of medieval Germany and France. [9]
- Ashkenazi Jewish People and Culture - 17 Facts You Should KnowThe Ashkenazi Jewish population developed in the Rhineland—a region straddling France and Germany—more than 1,000 years ago, and spread throughout Central and Eastern Europe. Where did they come from?
- Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews - The history of Ashkenazim and SephardimThere, Ashkenazi life flourished, and Yiddish (a Jewish concoction of German, Hebrew, Aramaic and more) became the dominant language of the Jews of Eastern Europe until the double scourges of Nazism and communism conspired to kill millions of Jews and squelch the Jewish identity of millions of others.
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