Ashkenazis

Ashkenazis

English

Noun

Ashkenazis

1. plural of Ashkenazi
   • 1958 Israel Medical Journal Volumes 17-18

     The 45 Young Ashkenazis studied were 18-20 years old. They were mostly students from the upper middle economic class, of families that had long been settled in Israel. An older group of 115 Ashkenazis were from 50—52 with an average ...

   • 1988 The Ashmadai Solution page 144

     But the majority became levantinized Ashkenazis.

   • 2010 The Brothers Ashkenazi page 65

     All the children, especially little Dinele, the daughter of the Ashkenazis' neighbor,

   • 2011 Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution

     This meant that in order to convince people from these countries to immigrate, Ashkenazis needed to send agitators to Arabic countries.

   • 2019 Haaretz

     The norm has become to undergo genetic testing before getting pregnant, certainly in Israel, where certain populations have heightened propensity for genetic diseases, such as Tay Sachs among Ashkenazis and broad bean allergy among those of Middle—Eastern descent.

Synonyms

• Ashkenazim