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Ashkenaz (ăsh`kēnăz'), eponym of a people perhaps localized in Armenia. He was grandson of Japheth. Gen. 10.3. Ashchenaz: 1 Chron. 1.6; Jer. 51.27. In modern times the term Ashkenazim refers to the German Jews as distinguished from the Sephardim, the Jews of Spain and Portugal. For the history of the Ashkenazim, see Jews Jews [from Judah ], traditionally, descendants of Judah, the fourth son of Jacob, whose tribe, with that of his half brother Benjamin, made up the kingdom of Judah; historically, members of the worldwide community of adherents to Judaism . |
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The reason was the economic success that transformed the relatively small Jewish communities of Ashkenaz into a bourgeois society. Medicare spokesman Peter Ashkenaz said the agency has been working with the plans to make sure seniors get accurate information. Ashkenaz named sandwiches after show business celebrities. |
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