Ashkenazi



Ashkenazi
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Language Ashkenazi Hebrew as a liturgical language. Also, traditionally, (Yiddish); now typically the language of whatever country they live in (including Modern Hebrew in Israel).
Religion Judaism
Related ethnic groups • Jews
  • Sephardic Jews
  • Ashkenazi
  • Other Jewish groups

Ashkenazi (אשכנזי, Standard Hebrew Aškanazi, Tiberian Hebrew ʾAškănāzī) Jews, also called Ashkenazim (אשכנזים, Standard Hebrew Aškanazim, Tiberian Hebrew ʾAškănāzīm), are Jews who are descendants of Jews from Germany, Poland, Austria and Eastern Europe. In historical times, Ashkenazi Jews usually spoke Yiddish or Slavic languages such as (now extinct) Knaanic.
Since the 19th century, many of them have emigrated to other countries such as France, the United States and, recently, Israel.