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Eskenazi is a toponymic surname found among Sephardic Jews and their descendants. It is the Ladino (Judaeo-Spanish) pronunciation of "Ashkenazi", a Hebrew term which ordinarily denotes one is an Ashkenazi Jew.
Eskenazi has various unrelated lineages traced back to several founders. The common etymological development process by which the surname arose independently various times is that each founder had at some point been referred to as "Eskenazi" to denote a link to that region, either as an originally ethnic Ashkenazi migrant assimilating into a Sephardic community in the Mediterranean, or more commonly simply a Sephardic merchant, student or emissary returning from some period in Ashkenaz.
Other variations include Esquenazi (using standard Spanish orthography in Hispanic countries where they have since further migrated to and settled), as well as Eshkenazi and Askinazi.
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Giuseppe Eskenazi (born 1939, Istanbul), London oriental art dealer
- Eskenazi (art gallery), London
- Jason Eskenazi (born 1960, Queens, New York), American photographer
- Roza Eskenazi (1890s–1980), Greek singer
- Sergio Esquenazi (born 1974), Argentinian filmmaker
- Yaco (Jacobo) Esquenazi Álvarez (born 1979), Peruvian model and actor.
Eskenazi is a London dealer in Chinese art and artifacts run by Giuseppe Eskenazi that opened in 1993.