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Ashkenazi Jews share a significant amount of ancestry with other Jewish populations and derive their ancestry mostly from populations in the Middle East, Southern Europe and Eastern Europe. [48] Other than their origins in ancient Israel, the question of how Ashkenazi Jews came to exist as a distinct community is unknown, and has given rise to ...
אַשְׁכְּנַזִּים (l.mn.) oraz יְהוּדֵי אַשְׁכְּנַז jehudej aszkenaz, „Żydzi z Aszkenazu”) – Żydzi zamieszkujący Europę Środkową, Wschodnią i częściowo Zachodnią, a od XVII wieku również Amerykę. Nazwa „aszkenazi” wywodzi się od Aszkanaza, postaci biblijnej i pierworodnego syna Gomera (Ks. Rodzaju X).
Ashkenazi Jews are the Jewish ethnic identity most readily recognized by North Americans — the culture of matzah balls, black-hatted Hasidim and Yiddish. This ethnicity originated in medieval Germany.
Ashkenazi, member of the Jews who lived in the Rhineland valley and in neighbouring France before their migration eastward to Slavic lands (e.g., Poland, Lithuania, Russia) after the Crusades (11th–13th century) and their descendants.
The Ashkenazi Jewish population developed in the Rhineland—a region straddling France and Germany—more than 1,000 years ago, and spread throughout Central and Eastern Europe. Where did they come from?
Ashkenazi Jews, or Ashkenazim, are the group of Jews who, after leaving Palestine circa 70 CE, lived in Central and Eastern Europe. "Ashkenazi" means "German" in Hebrew.
The team, which studied mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) passed on solely by mothers to their children, found evidence of shared maternal ancestry of Ashkenazi and non–Ashkenazi Jews, a finding showing a shared ancestral pool that is consistent with previous studies that were based on the Y chromosome.
