Ashkenaz: ASHKENAZ ash'-ke-naz ('ashkenaz): The name occurs in Genesis 10:3; 1 Chronicles 16, in the list of the sons of Japheth as a son of Gomer. See TABLE OF NATIONS. It occurs also in Jeremiah 51:27 (the ... [100%] 1915-01-01
Ashkenaz: through Gomer to Noah's third son, Japheth., 28, it is mentioned in connection with the kingdoms of Ararat and Minni and with the Medes as being hostile to Babylon. The Targum to the passages in Gen. (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [100%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
Ashkenaz: Germany: name applied generally in medieval rabbinical literature to that country. Its origin in this particular is obscure. Among the sources quoted by Zunz ("Ritus," p. (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [100%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
Ashkenaz Foundation: The Ashkenaz Foundation is a non-profit organization based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Its purpose is to increase awareness of Yiddish and Jewish culture through the arts. [70%] 2024-05-13 [Jewish organizations] [Jews and Judaism in Toronto]...
Minhag Ashkenaz: Minhag Ashkenaz is the minhag of the Ashkenazi German Jews. Minhag Ashkenaz was common in Germany, Austria, the Czech lands, and elsewhere in Western Europe, in contrast to the Minhag Polin of the Eastern European Ashkenazi Jews. [70%] 2024-06-18 [Ashkenazi Jewish culture in Austria] [Ashkenazi Jewish culture in Germany]...