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Ashkenazim
Variant of Ashkenazi
noun pl. Ashkenazim
- a member of the group of Jews that, after the Diaspora, settled in central, northern, and, later, eastern Europe and developed Yiddish as their spoken language
- a descendant of this group
Related Forms:
- Ashkenazic adjective
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