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- adjective of or relating to the
Ashkenazi Jews
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About 25% of my classmates were Ashkenazic “Modern Orthodox,” and the rest were (like me) Ashkenazic from a variety of non-Orthodox but relatively traditional homes who chose to send their kids to an Orthodox high school for various reasons.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Thought on American Jewish Demography 2010
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"The name Ashkenazic comes from Ashkenaz, a descendant of Noah who settled in a distant northern land. (see Gen 10: 3)."
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Sephardic comes from the Hebrew word for Spain and Ashkenazic from the Hebrew for German.
Emancipation Michael Goldfarb 2009
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I guess I'm just a little confused:) "The name Ashkenazic comes
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Another group known as Ashkenazic Jews are most commonly assumed to have arose when Jews migrated from France and other parts of Western Europe to Central Europe after 1000 c.e. Before the Holocaust 3 million Jews lived in Poland alone.
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It was a stricter school - in terms of dress, exposure to media, even to some aspects of Haredi culture that they feel is not for them as in Haredi "rock music", choice of careers, etc - and certainly NOT of an "Ashkenazic" school.
Cross-Currents Yaakov Menken 2010
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What follows is typical of the "Ashkenazic" (i.e. European) tradition, and does not include the eight symbolic foods of the "Sephardic" (i.e. Eastern) Seder -
NYT > Home Page 2008
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What follows is typical of the "Ashkenazic" (i.e. European) tradition, and does not include the eight symbolic foods of the "Sephardic" (i.e. Eastern) Seder -
NYT > Home Page 2008
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"Ashkenazic" refers to Western and Central European, Yiddish-speaking Jews; "Sephardic" refers to Ladino-speaking Jews of the Iberian Peninsula and the Levant.
Archive 2009-04-01 Bryanna Clark Grogan 2009
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"Ashkenazic" refers to Western and Central European, Yiddish-speaking Jews; "Sephardic" refers to Ladino-speaking Jews of the Iberian Peninsula and the Levant.
A MORE EXOTIC MATZOH BALL SOUP (VEGAN) Bryanna Clark Grogan 2009
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