Ashkenazi

He's an Ashkenazi Jew.

Nineteenth-century Hebrew had three principal dialects: Sephardi, Ashkenazi, and Yemenite.

Ashkenazi Hebrew uses a sibilant fricative where Yemenite Hebrew has a non-sibilant fricative.

There are many similarities between the vowel systems of Ashkenazi and Yemenite Hebrew.

Ashkenazi and Yemenite Hebrew are closely related to the Tiberian reading tradition of the Masoretic Text, while Sephardi Hebrew is more closely related to the Palestinian tradition.

Zamenhof was an Ashkenazi Jew.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, European surnames were legally forced upon Ashkenazi Jews.

Many Ashkenazi Jews were required to pick from a list of pre-approved surnames, while others were assigned a surname.

The large community of Jewish refugees displaced from Judea to what became the Frankish and later Holy Roman Empire came to be known as "Ashkenazi."

In Tiberian, Yemenite, and Ashkenazi Hebrew, long a merged with short o.