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1. Ashkenazi: Ashkenazi (from the name of one of Noah's grandsons) is a Jew of eastern European or German descent; as compared with Sephardim, refers to the group of Jews who, after the diaspora, settled in central and northern Europe. Many ... [100%] 2023-03-14 [Judaism]
2. Ashkenazi: Judíos asquenazíes Ashkenazishe idn \- אשכנזישע אידן Yehudei ashkenaz \- יהודי אשכנז Judíos rezando en la sinagoga durante Yom Kipur, por Maurycy Gottlieb, 1878. Asquenazí o asquenazi,[8]​ también escrito como askenazí o ashkenazí, es el nombre dado a los judíos que se asentaron en la Europa Central y ... [100%] 2023-05-26
3. Ashkenazi: Ashkenazi Jews, also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim, are Jews descended from the medieval Jewish communities of the Rhineland—"Ashkenaz" being the Medieval Hebrew name for Germany. They are distinguished from Sephardic Jews, the other main group of European ... [100%] 2023-02-04
4. Judah Ashkenazi: Judah ben Simon Sofer Frankfurt Ashkenazi (Tiktin) was a Polish commentator on the Shulchan Aruch. He officiated as "dayyan" (assistant rabbi) at Tikotzin, Poland, in the first half of the eighteenth century. (18th-century Polish rabbi) [70%] 2024-01-12 [18th-century Polish rabbis] [Authors of books on Jewish law]...
5. Avraham Ashkenazi: Avraham Ashkenazi (1813–1880) was a Sephardi chief rabbi (Rishon LeZion). Rabbi Ashkenazi was born at Janishar, near Salonica, in 1813. (Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Ottoman Palestine) [70%] 2023-10-02 [19th-century rabbis in Jerusalem] [Rishon LeZion (rabbi)]...
6. Menachem Ashkenazi: Menachem Ashkenazi (Hebrew: מנחם אשכנזי) (6 August 1934 – 13 November 2000) was an Israeli international football referee, born in Bulgaria, active during the 1960s and 1970s. He was the first Asian referee who officiated in a World Cup. (Israeli football referee) [70%] 2023-11-24 [1934 births] [2000 deaths]...
7. Ashkenazi Hasidim: The Hasidim of Ashkenaz (Hebrew: חסידי אשכנז, trans. Khasidei Ashkenaz; "German Pietists") were a Jewish mystical, ascetic movement in the German Rhineland during the 12th and 13th centuries. (Jewish mystical, ascetic movement in Germany during the 12th and 13th centuries) [70%] 2023-12-11 [Jewish German history] [Ashkenazi Jewish culture in Europe]...
8. Dan Ashkenazi: German Talmudist and exegete; flourished in the second half of the thirteenth century. Dan, who was one of the most prominent Talmudists of Germany and the teacher of Mordecai ben Hillel, emigrated to Spain toward the end of the thirteenth ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [70%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
9. Goga Ashkenazi: Goga Ashkenazi (born Gaukhar Yerkinovna Berkalieva; Kazakh: Гауһар Еркінқызы Берқалиева, Gauhar Erkınqyzy Berqalieva; 1 February 1980) is a Kazakh businesswoman and socialite. She is the founder and CEO of MunaiGaz Engineering Group, a Kazakh oil and gas conglomerate. (Kazakh businesswoman and socialite) [70%] 2024-01-08 [1980 births] [Living people]...
10. Malkiel Ashkenazi: Malkiel (also spelled Malchiel) Ashkenazi (Hebrew: מלכיאל אשכנזי) was a Sephardic rabbi and leader of the Jewish community in Hebron in 1540. The story of his leading a community in Hebron has its root in 1517, when the Ottoman Turks invaded and ... [70%] 2023-11-10 [Rabbis in Hebron] [16th-century rabbis from the Ottoman Empire]...
11. Joseph Ashkenazi: Rabbi Joseph Ashkenazi (1525–1572) the Tanna of Safed was a critical commentator on the Mishnah, whose glosses are noted in Solomon Adeni's Mele'khet Shelomo. [70%] 2024-06-15 [Rabbis in Safed] [1525 births]...
12. Apotheker, Abraham Ashkenazi: An apothecary ("aptheker," according to the customary Polish-Jewish syncopated pronunciation) and writer, whose name betokens both his nationality and his profession. He lived at Vladimir in Volhynia in the second half of the sixteenth century. He was the author ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [57%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
13. Adi Ashkenazi (chef): Adi Ashkenazi was Born in 1997 and raised in Rishon Le Zion, to a Syrian-Jewish father and a Persian-Jewish mother. Ashkenazi served in an inteligence unit in the Israeli Air Force, during his time-off from his military ... (Chef) [57%] 2023-09-26 [Israeli chefs] [1997 births]...
14. Bloch, Mattithiah Ashkenazi: Cabalist; lived at Jerusalem in the seventeenth century. A blind adherent and indefatigable apostle of Shabbethai Ẓebi, he was appointed by him one of his prophets charged with the announcement of the Redemption. Bibliography: * Sasportas, Ẓiẓat Nobel Ẓebi, p. (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [57%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
15. Meir Ashkenazi (rabbi): Rabbi Meir Ashkenazi (Hebrew: מאיר אשכנזי) was a Chabad rabbi who served as chief Rabbi of Shanghai from 1926 to 1949. Ashkenazi was born to Shneur Zalman and Kayla (Zislin), Chabad Chasidim in Chernihiv. (Rabbi) [57%] 2023-08-21 [1891 births] [Jewish Chinese history]...
16. Ashkenazi Jewish intelligence: Whether Ashkenazi Jews have higher average intelligence than other ethnic groups, and if so, why, has been an occasional subject of scientific controversy. Studies have generally found Ashkenazi Jews to have an average intelligence quotient (IQ) in the range of ... (Philosophy) [57%] 2023-12-19 [Biological hypotheses] [Intelligence]...
17. Israel Ben Jehiel Ashkenazi: Italian rabbi; lived at the end of the fifteenth and in the early part of the sixteenth century. He was corrector of the edition of the Talmud published in Pesaro 1511-13; and in 1518 he approved the first edition ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [50%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
18. Eliezer ben Elijah Ashkenazi: Eliezer (Lazer) ben Elijah Ashkenazi (1512–December 13, 1585) (Hebrew: אליעזר בן אליהו אשכנזי‎) was a Talmudist, rabbi, physician, and many-sided scholar. Though of a German family (according to some, the relative of Joseph Colon), he was probably born in the Levant, and ... (Religion) [50%] 2023-12-19 [Biblical exegesis]
19. Jacob ben Isaac Ashkenazi: Rabbi Jacob ben Isaac Ashkenazi (1550–1625), of Janów (near Lublin, Poland), was the author of the Tseno Ureno, sometimes called the "Women's Bible", a Yiddish-language prose work written around the 1590s whose structure parallels the weekly portions ... (Polish rabbi (1550-1625), author of popular devotional texts) [50%] 2023-12-28 [Yiddish-language writers] [16th-century Polish rabbis]...
20. Moses Ben Solomon Ha-Kohen Ashkenazi: German tosafist; lived at Mayence in the twelfth century. It appears, however, that Moses was a native of France ("Or Zarua'," ii. he seems to have studied also under Jacob Tam ("Mordekai," Yeb. (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [44%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
21. Eliezer Ben Jacob Bellin Ashkenazi: He prepared a calendar ("'Ibronot," Lublin, 1615) based upon the work of Jacob Marcaria (Riva di Trento, 1561), and improved by the addition of a circular table, which facilitated the determination of holidays and other important dates. It was reprinted ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [44%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
22. Elhanan Ben Samuel (Sanwel) Ashkenazi: Rabbi of Schottland, near Danzig; born in 1713; died Sept. At the age of eighteen he became rabbi of Fordon, Prussia, and in 1752 first rabbi of Schottland. He wrote various Talmudic commentaries and "ḥilluḳim," or discussions, as well as ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [44%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
23. Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence: Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence is a paper published by "human biodiversity" proponent Gregory Cochran, anthropology student Jason Hardy and white nationalist Henry Harpending which "elaborates the hypothesis that the unique demography and sociology of Ashkenazim in medieval Europe selected ... [44%] 2023-12-28 [Pseudojournals] [Racialism]...
24. List of Ashkenazi Jewish restaurants: Following is a list of Ashkenazi Jewish restaurants. (None) [44%] 2023-12-11 [Ashkenazi Jewish restaurants] [Lists of restaurants]...
25. Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry: The Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry, often called the Khazar myth by its critics, is a largely abandoned historical hypothesis. The hypothesis postulated that Ashkenazi Jews were primarily, or to a large extent, descended from Khazars, a multi-ethnic conglomerate ... (Biology) [44%] 2023-12-21 [Fringe theories] [Population genetics]...
26. Heilbronn (Heilprin), Abraham Ben Moses Ashkenazi: Chief rabbi of Lemberg; born in 1578; died Jan. Abraham Heilbronn wrote: "Birkat Abraham," a homily which he delivered on the day of his "bar miẓwah" (Prague); "Ahabat Ẓiyyon," a commentary on the Pentateuch and the five Megillot (Lublin, 1639 ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [40%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
27. Helin, Jacob Moses Ben Abraham Ashkenazi: Polish Talmudist; born about 1625; died about 1700. Heshel, and was the son-in-law of Löb Heller, rabbi of Satanow. Helin was the author of "Yede Mosheh," a commentary with critical notes on Midrash Rabbah, indicating the Talmudical sources ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [40%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
28. Isserlein (Isserlin), Israel Ben Pethahiah Ashkenazi: The foremost Talmudic authority of Germany in the first half of the fifteenth century; born in the last decade of the fourteenth century, probably at Ratisbon; died at Neustadt, near Vienna, 1460. Isserlein belonged to an old family of scholars ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [40%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
29. Mordecai Ben Judah (Aryeh Löb) Ashkenazi: Dutch ritualist; lived in Amsterdam in the early part of the seventeenth century. He was a disciple of Abraham Rovigo, whose commentary to the Zohar, "Eshel Abraham," he arranged and corrected. It was published, with the text, at Fürth in ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [40%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
30. Israel Ben Samuel Ashkenazi Of Shklov: Talmudic casuist; born at Shklov about 1770; died at Tiberias May 13, 1839. One of a group of Talmudical scholars of Shklov who were attracted to Wilna by Elijah Gaon (see Elijah ben Solomon) (1720-97), Ashkenazi was one of ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [40%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
31. Ashkenazi, Joseph: Critic of the Mishnah; resided at Safed, Palestine, and died there between 1575 and 1582. Though Ashkenazi came to Palestine from Verona—for which reason he was also called Joseph of Verona—it is by no means impossible that he ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [70%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
32. Ashkenazi, Gershon: Polish Talmudist; born in the second decade of the seventeenth century; died at Metz March 20, 1693. His family name was really, "Ulif," "Olive"(?, the surname "Ashkenazi" being usually bestowed in Poland upon families of German extraction. (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [70%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
33. Ashkenazi, Abraham: Chief rabbi of Palestine (), born at Janishar, near Salonica, in 1813; died at Jerusalem Jan. At the age of fifteen he was taken by his father to Jerusalem, where he studied rabbinical literature in the various colleges. The Turkish rabbis ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [70%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
34. Ashkenazi, Benjamin: Russian communal worker and philanthropist; born in 1824; died at Grodno in 1894. He was the son of Joshua Heschel Ashkenazi, rabbi of Lublin, who was a descendant of Ḥakam Ẓebi. Ashkenazi settled at Grodno, where he became the leading ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [70%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
35. ’Ashkenazi, Sebi: Ashkenazi, Sebi (1656-1718), known as Ḥakham Ṣebi, for some time rabbi of Amsterdam, was a resolute opponent of the followers of the pseudo-Messiah, Sabbatai Ṣebi (q. He had a chequered career, owing to his independence of character. He ... [70%] 2022-09-02
36. Ashkenazi, Bezalel: One of the leading Oriental Talmudists and rabbis of his day; born toward the end of the sixteenth century. Descended from a family of German scholars, he was probably born in Palestine. The greater part of his life was spent ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [70%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
37. Ashkenazi, Nissim Abraham: Talmudic author; lived in the first half of the nineteenth century in Smyrna, where he officiated. He was the author of "NeḦmad le-Mareh" (Graceful of Appearance), which contains methodological rules on the treatises Berakot and Seder Zera'im in ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [57%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
38. Ashkenazi, Baerush (Dob): Rabbi at Slonim, Lithuania, later at Lublin, Poland; born about 1801; died in Lublin March 6, 1852. He was the author of: (1) "Noda' ba-She'arim. Known in the Gates), containing responsa on the "Eben he'Ezer"; novellæ on the ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [57%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
39. Ashkenazi, Meshullam Zalman: Polish rabbi and man of letters; born in the second half of the eighteenth century; died at Lublin, Poland, May 1, 1843. He was the son of Rabbi Meshullam Zalman of Pomarin, whose family name was Orenstein, under which appellation ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [57%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
40. Ashkenazi, Moses David: Talmudist and author; born in Galicia about 1778; died at Safed, Palestine, in 1857. After holding the office of rabbi at Tolcsva, Hungary, from 1803 to 1843, he emigrated to Palestine, settling permanently at Safed. In 1844 he published at ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [57%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
41. Ashkenazi, Saul Cohen: Religious philosopher of German descent, as his name indicates; born in Candia 1470; died at Constantinople May 28, 1523. He was a disciple of Elijah Delmedigo, who induced him to devote his attention to philosophy. His principal works are: (1 ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [57%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
42. Ashkenazi, Joseph Edels: Palestinian commentator and cabalist; lived at the beginning of the nineteenth century at Jerusalem and Padua; died at Safed. He was sent as European agent ("meshullaḦ") from Palestine to collect money for the Palestinian poor. On his travels he remained at ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [57%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
43. Ashkenazi, Solomon Ben Nathan: , Augustus of Poland (1548-72), and Turkish diplomat; born probably about 1520; died 1602. A descendant of a German family settled in Udine (Italy), he came in his early youth to Cracow, probably in the train of the Italian wife ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [50%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
44. Alaman, Ashkenazi, Or Deutsch: Name of a many-branched and wide-spread Jewish family in the Turkish empire, whose ancestor, Joseph ben Solomon of Ofen (Buda), Hungary, is said to have been at the head of a deputation to hand over the keys of ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [50%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]