Crossword clues for ashkenazi
Wiktionary
a. Of or relating to Jews of German and Eastern Europe origin, and their traditions, customs, and rituals. n. An Askhenazi Jew.
Wikipedia
Ashkenazi is a surname, and may refer to:
- Abraham Ashkenazi, 19th-century rabbi at Jerusalem
- Adi Ashkenazi
- Bezalel Ashkenazi, 16th-century rabbi and Talmud scholar
- Dan Ashkenazi (13th century), German Talmudist
- Eliezer ben Elijah Ashkenazi (1512–1585), rabbi, Talmudist, and physician
- Gabi Ashkenazi (born 1954), Chief of the Israel Defense Forces General Staff
- Goga Ashkenazi (born 1980), Kazakh-Russian businesswoman
- Jacob ben Isaac Ashkenazi (1550–1625), rabbi and author of the Tseno Ureno
- Israel Sarug Ashkenazi (16th century), pupil of Isaac Luria
- Yisroel ben Shmuel Ashkenazi of Shklov
- Léon Ashkenazi (1922–1996), French rabbi and Jewish leader
- Lior Ashkenazi (born 1969), Israeli actor
- Malkiel Ashkenazi (16th century), Sephardic rabbi in Hebron
- Meir Ashkenazi (16th century), envoy of the Khan of Crimea
- Menachem Ashkenazi
- Mordechai ben Hillel Ashkenazi (1250–1298), German rabbi and legal authority
- Moses Ashkenazi (died 1701), also known as Johann Peter Spaeth, a German convert to Judaism
- Abraham Ashkenazi, Chacham Bashi of Jerusalem
- Motti Ashkenazi (contemporary), Israeli reserve captain
- Tzvi Ashkenazi (1656–1718), rabbi of Amsterdam
- Vladimir Ashkenazy (born 1937), Russian conductor and pianist
- Yitzhak Ashkenazi (1534–1572), also called Isaac Luria, rabbi and mystic, founder of an important branch of Kabbalah
Usage examples of "ashkenazi".
July twelfth Norman Ashkenazi drove the old Ford of the Israeli relocation team from Sousse to Ez-Zahra to tell Sharon Hoyt that it was Bastille Day and they ought to celebrate by having a picnic and going to the beach.
Shafik was having prayers for the third time that afternoon, and Norman Ashkenazi was getting restless.
Norman Ashkenazi had thought, watching it through the windshield of the Mercedes, seen so much solid god-damned vertical water in my life.
After that they moved in the immigrants, the Sephardic Jews from Spain, Belgian and French craftsmen, then the Ashkenazi Jews from Eastern Europe.
During the war years, while my father, a Zionist and anti-Fascist volunteer, was in the army, I was brought up by my maternal grandparents in a middling suburb of north-west London, part of the classical migratory route for Ashkenazi Jews who had come over from Russia and Poland and settled in east London in the early part of the century.
And this morning they lowered him into darkness, and wonderful words were read over him by Rabbi Ashkenazi, Monsignor McCalla, Dr.
Of this Jewish immigration, approximately 80 percent were Ashkenazi Jews.
American, Australian, and South African-born Ashkenazi Jews and relatively poor Moroccan Oriental Jews.
Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe to New York City, a veritable Ashkenazi tidal wave.