Ashkenazi Jews (/ˌɑːʃkəˈnɑːzi, ˌæʃ-/ A(H)SH-kə-NAH-zee; Hebrew: יְהוּדֵי אַשְׁכְּנַז, romanized: Yehudei Ashkenaz, lit. 'Jews of Germania'; Yiddish: אַשכּנזישע...
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Anat Ashkenazi is the CFO of Alphabet Inc. She had previously worked at Eli Lilly and Company since 2001, finishing as CFO there. An Israeli, Ashkenazi earned...
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Ashkenazi Jewish intelligence, often referred to as "Jewish genius", is the stereotype that Ashkenazi Jews tend to have a higher intelligence than other...
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Genetic studies of Jews (redirect from Ashkenazi genetics)
communities with most in a community sharing significant ancestry – with Ashkenazi Jews forming the largest such group. mtDNA and Y-DNA tests look at maternal...
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hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry, often called the Khazar myth by its critics, is a largely abandoned historical hypothesis that postulated that Ashkenazi Jews...
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Ashkenazi Hebrew (Hebrew: הֲגִיָּה אַשְׁכְּנַזִּית, romanized: hagiyoh ashkenazis, Yiddish: אַשכּנזישע הבֿרה, romanized: ashkenazishe havore) is the pronunciation...
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Lior Ashkenazi (Hebrew: ליאור אשכנזי; born 28 December 1968) is an Israeli actor, voice actor, comedian and television presenter. Regarded as one of the...
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Adi Ashkenazi (Hebrew: עדי אשכנזי; born 23 March 1975) is an Israeli actress, comedian and television host. Ashkenazi was born in Herzliya, Israel. Her...
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German Judaism has not been studied. The leaders of the community of the Ashkenazi Hasidim movement were descended from the Kalonymos family of northern...
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Medical genetics of Jews (redirect from Medical genetics of Ashkenazi Jews)
more common than average in ethnically Jewish populations, particularly Ashkenazi Jews, because of relatively recent population bottlenecks and because...
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Ashkenazi (Hebrew: אַשְׁכְּנַזִּי) is a surname of Jewish origin. The term Ashkenaz (Hebrew: אַשְׁכְּנַז) refers to the area along the Rhine in Western...
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Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine is an assortment of cooking traditions that was developed by the Ashkenazi Jews of Central, Eastern, Northwestern and Northern...
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Gabriel "Gabi" Ashkenazi (Hebrew: גבי אשכנזי; born 25 February 1954) is an Israeli politician and former military leader. He previously served as the...
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Bezalel ben Abraham Ashkenazi (Hebrew: בצלאל בן אברהם אשכנזי) (c. 1520 – c. 1592) was a rabbi and talmudist who lived in Ottoman Israel during the 16th...
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Benjamin Ashkenazi (1824–1894) was a Polish Jewish communal worker and philanthropist in 19th-century Russian Empire. Ashkenazi was born in 1824 to Joshua...
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David Vladimirovitch Ashkenazi (Russian: Дави́д Влади́мирович Ашкена́зи; 25 December 1915 – 19 February 1997) was a Russian-Jewish pianist, accompanist...
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Ashkenazi Jews in Israel refers to immigrants and descendants of Ashkenazi Jews, who now reside within the state of Israel, in the modern sense also referring...
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Goga Ashkenazi (born Gaukhar Yerkinovna Berkalieva; Kazakh: Гауһар Еркінқызы Берқалиева, Gauhar Erkınqyzy Berqalieva; 1 February 1980) is a Kazakh businesswoman...
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Ashkenormativity (redirect from White Ashkenazi privilege)
within Ashkenazi Jewish culture that confers privilege on Ashkenazi Jews relative to Jews of Sephardi, Mizrahi, Ethiopian, and other non-Ashkenazi backgrounds...
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List of East European Jews (redirect from List of Ashkenazi Jews)
Until the Holocaust, Jews were a significant part of the population of Eastern Europe. Outside Poland, the largest population was in the European part...
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Rabbi Gershon Ashkenazi (c.1620 – 1693) was a Polish Talmudist who studied under Joel Sirkis. He was a disciple of the Maharam Shif and the Rabbi Heschel...
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Motti Ashkenazi (Hebrew: מוטי אשכנזי; born 1940) was a reserve captain in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), who spearheaded a protest after the Yom Kippur...
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The Brothers Ashkenazi (1936) (Yiddish: די ברידער אַשכּנזי Di brider Ashkenazi) is a novel by Israel Joshua Singer. Written in Yiddish, it first appeared...
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Solomon ben Nathan Ashkenazi (c. 1520 – 1602) was a Jewish physician and businessman active in Ottoman, Venetian and Polish–Lithuanian politics during...
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American Jews (redirect from Ashkenazi Jews in the United States)
by Pew Research, approximately two thirds of American Jews identify as Ashkenazi, 3% identify as Sephardic, and 1% identify as Mizrahi. An additional 6%...
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reached 30,000 Jews by end of the 16th century. The 16th century saw many Ashkenazi Kabbalists drawn to the mystical aura and teachings of the Jewish holy...
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(pictured), which traveled with Jews expelled from Spain and likely influenced Ashkenazi cuisine? ... that at the 2024 Olympics, unranked North Korean table tennis...
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Isaac Luria (redirect from Isaac ben Solomon Ashkenazi Luria)
Isaac ben Solomon Luria Ashkenazi (Hebrew: יִצְחָק בן שלמה לוּרְיָא אשכנזי; c. 1534 – July 25, 1572), commonly known in Jewish religious circles as Ha'ari...
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Tzvi Hirsch ben Yaakov Ashkenazi (Hebrew: צבי אשכנזי; 1656 – 2 May 1718), known as the Chacham Tzvi after his responsa by the same title, served for...
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To be distinguished from Joseph Askhenazi (1928-1974) Rabbi Joseph Ashkenazi (1525–1572) the Tanna of Safed was a critical commentator on the Mishnah...
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