Ashkenazis

English

Noun

Ashkenazis

1. plural of Ashkenazi
   • 1958, Israel Medical Journal Volumes 17-18‎^[1]:

     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^[2]:

     But the majority became levantinized Ashkenazis.

   • 2010, The Brothers Ashkenazi page 65‎^[3]:

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

   • 2011, Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution‎^[4]:

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

   • 2019, Haaretz‎^[5]:

     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