Ashchenazim

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of Ashkenazim. alt-of, alternative, rare

    "1845: [a rabbinical council in Jerusalem], [an edict forbidding Jews from entering the Jews' Hospital in Jerusalem]; quoted in:"

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"1845: [a rabbinical council in Jerusalem], [an edict forbidding Jews from entering the Jews' Hospital in Jerusalem]; quoted in:"

Etymology

Identical with Ashkenazim, but formed on the pattern of Ashchenaz, the spelling of the name of the Biblical figure found in the Bible's First Book of the Chronicles, as opposed to Ashkenaz, the spelling which occurs in the Book of Genesis.

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