Definition
The name Ashkenazis is used to designate those European Jews who come from North of the Mediterranean, fundamentally from Central and Easter Europe, speaking Yiddish, a German-Hebrew languaje dialect of Hebrew formed in the Middle Ages (Hernández 2013a). (Ashk’naz: Alemannia) (Roth 1956). The Medieval rabbis were called Ashk’naz in Germany, making reference to Ashkenaz (Gn. 10:3; Jr. 51:27; Cr. 1:6) (Santa Biblia (AT), Versión Reina - Varela, 1960), the son of Gomer, of Jafet, the third son of Noah, who is supposed to have inhabited the territory to the south of the Black Sea (Diccionario Ilustrado de la Biblia, Editorial Caribe 1974). It is there that the term “Ashkenazis,” in opposition to “Sephardis” (Jews of the South of the Mediterranean) (Hernández 2013a), came to apply to his descendants and finally to all Jewry of the north as a group (Enciclopedia Judaica Castellana 1951).
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The category Ashkenazíhas been introducing in the Middler Ages when...
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Hernández Gómez de Molina, A. (2019). Ashkenazi. In: Gooren, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions. Religions of the World. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27078-4_245
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