Tags: Ethnic Group.
For other meanings see Ashkenaz (disambiguation).Ashkenazi Jews also known as Ashkenazic Jews or simply Ashkenazim (Hebrew: אַשְׁכְּנַזִּים Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation: [ˌaʃkəˈnazim] singular: [ˌaʃkəˈnazi] Modern Hebrew: [aʃkenaˈzim] [aʃkenaˈzi]; also יְהוּדֵי אַשְׁכֲּנַז Y’hudey Ashkenaz The Jews of Germany) are a Jewish ethnic division whose ethnogenesis and emergence as a distinct community of Jews traces back to immigrants originating in the Israelite tribes of the Middle East who coalesced in the Holy Roman Empire around the turn of the first millennium.
