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| | Encyclopedia: Ashkenazi |
 | | The term Ashkenazi also refers to the nusach (Hebrew, "liturgical tradition") used by Ashkenazi Jews in their Siddur (prayer book). | | | Ashkenazi Jews frequently name newborn children after deceased family members, but not after living relatives. | | | Jewish ethnic divisions: The most commonly used terms to describe ethnic divisions among Jews presently are: Ashkenazi (meaning German in Hebrew, denoting the Central European base of Jewry); and Sephardi (meaning Spanish in Hebrew, denoting their Spanish and North African location). |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Ashkenazi
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| | Ashkenazi |
| | For the Ashkenazi Jews the studies of Hebrew, the Torah and the Talmud was more than just a way of understanding their religion, it was also a way of protecting themselves against the influence of the societies around them. | | | Ashkenazi and Sephardi tunes for both prayers and Torah reading are different. | | | The name "askhenaz" was the name that the Jews themselves used for Germany, a name taken from Genesis 10:3. |
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http://www.lexicorient.com/e.o/jud_ashk.htm
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| | Can Sephardic Judaism be Reconstructed? |
| | That Sephardic attitude, which is typically Mediterranean, runs against the grain of the Ashkenazi pattern where people have to declare their religious ideology and form of religious behavior to fit into one community or another within Orthodoxy as well as between Orthodox and non-Orthodox. | | | Ashkenazi haredim went even further, to insist that every person had to follow the customs of the community from which his family came in Eastern Europe, down to the smallest matters of pronunciation. | | | Sephardi congregations may be divided by the traditions of their communities of origin, but there are no religious tests per se. |
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http://www.jcpa.org/dje/articles3/sephardic.htm
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| | Differences in Sephardic and Ashkenazi genealogy |
| | Today, many non-Hassidic Ashkenazis who seek to emphasize the spiritual aspect of prayer and Kavannah (principally among the Kabbalists) have also come to adopt Nusach Sepharad. | | | In the formative years of Hassidism in Eastern Europe, disciples and followers of the Baal Shem Tov and of his successor, the Maggid of Mezhirech,, formally adopted Nusach Ari as their style of prayer. | | | Nusach Sepharad/Sephardi (Sephardic version/formula) --to be distinguished from Minhag Sepharad (Sephardic ritual/custom)-- refers to the Ashkenazic form of prayer that includes certain elements from the Sephardic liturgy, along with other borrowings. |
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http://www.jewishgen.org/SefardSIG/differ.HTM
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| | Ashkenazi |
| | The ancestor who introduced it into the Ashkenazi Levites perhaps could have been from the Khazars, a Turkic tribe whose king converted to Judaism in the eighth or ninth century, the researchers suggest. | | | If the patrilineal descent of the two priestly castes -- Cohanim and Levites -- had been followed as tradition describes, then all Cohanim should be descended from Aaron, the brother of Moses; and all Levites from Levi, the third son of the patriarch Jacob. | | | The genetic signature occurs on the male or Y chromosome and comes from a few men, or perhaps a single ancestor, who lived about 1,000 years ago, just as the Ashkenazi community was beginning to be established in Europe. |
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http://www.adelaideinstitute.org/Racecard/ashkenazi.htm
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| | When Jewish Means Ashkenazi |
| | An Ashkenazi Jew openly can practice her traditions within the Jewish community and expect that other practicing members of the community immediately will understand what she is doing and will be able to join in with her. | | | A number of Mizrahi/Sephardi young adults my age have shared the fact that they love Mizrahi/Sephardi tradition when they are exposed to it; however, they know virtually nothing about the tradition, and they do not relate to the tradition as theirs. | | | Until this reality happens, it is clear to me that the Jewish establishment does not hold Mizrahi, Sephardi, or Ethiopian Jewish people or traditions as being as valid and valuable as it holds Ashkenazi people and traditions. |
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http://www.loolwa.com/articles/pgs/ashkenazi.html
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| | The high intelligence of Jews. |
| | Perhaps the ultimate testimony to the importance of religious scholarship among Jews is that Hebrew, an ancient language used only for religious purposes for nearly 2500 years, has been reborn as a modern language. | | | But the wealthiest and most established Jews in London at that time were descendants of Sephardim who came to England in the 18th century, not of more recent Ashkenazi immigrants. | | | His maternal great-grandfather was a rabbi famous for his compilation of a Jewish calendar spanning over 400 years, and the rabbi's descendants (the boy's cousins) had IQs of 156, 150, 130, and 122. |
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http://home.comcast.net/~neoeugenics/IQgenes.htm
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| | The Ashkenazi Zionist Eraser (article) by Sami Shalom Chetrit on AuthorsDen |
| | In other words, it is an excellent book from the point of view of the aims of the Ashkenazi Zionist historians and teachers who have set for themselves to erase Mizrahi history and not to allow the crystallization of a Mizrahi identity in Israel. | | | Their way of life was stagnant and sunk in spiritual sleep.” This Ashkenazi historian adds: “The masses of the people lived in degenerated poverty and ignorance, | | | This is an insulting and contemptuous message with regard to glorious communities of hundreds and thousands years standing who strengthened and beautified Hebrew-Jewish culture from the day it was born on the East. |
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http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewarticle.asp?AuthorID=7261&id=6830
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| | Ashkenazi Hebrew language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Ashkenazi Hebrew language is a descendant of Biblical Hebrew favored for liturgical use by Ashkenazi Jewish practice. | | | The vowel qāmeṣ gāḏôl (/ā/) is pronounced /o/ in Ashkenazi Hebrew, where it is /a/ in Modern Hebrew. | | | Although Modern Hebrew was based on Sephardi Hebrew, the language as spoken in Israel is essentially Sephardi Hebrew utilizing Mishnaic spelling, constrained to Ashkenazi Hebrew phonology, including the elimination of pharyngeal articulation and the conversion of /r/ from an alveolar flap to a voiced uvular fricative or trill. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Hebrew_language
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| | Personality of the Week - Ashkenazi |
| | From 1688 to 1709 he lived in Altona, Germany, where he was recognized as an eminent scholar of Jewish law, questions being submitted to him from many parts of Europe. | | | In 1707, Ashkenazi was elected rabbi of the triple community of Altona-Hamburg-Wandsbeck and in 1710 was appointed chief rabbi of the Ashkenazi Jews in Amsterdam. |
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http://www.bh.org.il/Names/POW/Ashkenazi.asp
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| | Geneticists study jewish genes for disease clues - Stormfront White Nationalist Community |
| | For religious and historical reasons, most Ashkenazi Jews married within their community, a phenomena that Darvasi said shows up in the Ashkenazi genes he studies which tend to have a high degree of similarity. | | | Modern Ashkenazi Jews are believed to descend from about 1,500 Jewish families dating back to the 14th century. | | | In the 18th century, Ashkenazi Jews began to flourish and their numbers swelled to around 10 million today. |
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http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=7914
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| | Ashkenazi -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Though cantors (hazzanim) still use such a book, mahzor has come to mean the festival prayer book, as distinguished from the siddur, the prayer book used on the ordinary sabbath and on weekdays. | | | (from Arabic al-minbar, “platform”), in Jewish synagogues, a raised platform with a reading desk from which, in the Ashkenazi (German) ritual, the Torah and Haftarah (a reading from the prophets) are read on the Sabbath and festivals. | | | The rabbi wears it, as does the cantor, the blower of the shofar (ritual ram's horn), and male members of Ashkenazi (German-rite) congregations. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9009835?tocId=9009835
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| | Israelites, Christian Israelite Network Books: Torah & Tanach In Ancient Hebrew, The Bible Truth, by Robert ... |
| | As stated, the Bible declares that there would be Israelite impostors; these impostors have inadvertently or deliberately identified themselves by their own writings. | | | Today, the Khazars are known as “Ashkenazi Jews” and “Israelis” not because of race or genealogy, but because of religious conversion. | | | It is now becoming well known that the so-called Ashkenazi Jews and Israelis are descended from the Eastern European Khazars. |
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http://www.israelite.net
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| | Party Vote ACT 2005 // A C T - Goff wrong over Ashkenazi visit |
| | Note: You are reading this message because you either cannot see our CSS files, or are using a non-standards-compliant browser. | | | “Mr Ashkenazi was invited to New Zealand by the United Israel Appeal to address an invitation-only meeting in Auckland last Sunday evening. | | | Nothing could be further from the truth,” Mr Shirley said. |
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http://www.act.org.nz/item.jsp?id=26737
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| | Ashkenazi Jews |
| | Because it conflicts with the traditional Jewish dogma of the Chosen Race, which places the origin of the Ashkenazi in the Middle East, Koestler’s theory has caused some controversy regarding the rights of the Ashkenazim to Israel, if they are indeed not of Semitic origin. | | | A popular theory put forth by Arthur Koestler, who authored a book on the subject, stated that these Jews had their roots in the Turkish Empire of Khazaria, where the nobility converted to Judaism in the middle ages. | | | These particular mutations also place the Ashkenazi roots in the Middle East, in coherence with Jewish tradition. |
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http://home.nc.rr.com/ambiient/site/jews.htm
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| | FAQs |
| | We also include Ashkenazi Jews who are married to the children of the nonagenarians and centenarians as “controls.” Controls can also be any Ashkenazi Jew whose parents both died before their 80 | | | Although participants in this study must be Ashkenazi Jews, the findings will be relevant to everyone, regardless of their ethnic or religious background. | | | Why is this study limited to Ashkenazi Jewish people? |
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http://www.aecom.yu.edu/home/longevitygenesproject/q-and-a.htm
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| | Overclocking by Gregory Cochran |
| | Koestler and others have been fascinated with the story of the Khazars, who were converted en masse to Judaism after a contest between Muslim, Christian, and Jewish spokespersons as to which religion was best. | | | The form common in Ashkenazi Jews does not cause brain damage, although there can be other problems with the spleen and bones. | | | Cochran states, the Ashkenazi have traditionally followed the intellectual trades, it stands to reason that their culture would place a premium on study and mental training. |
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http://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/cochran/overclocking.html
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| | Male Bca in Israel-Some interesting findings |
| | The average age-standardized rate (ASR) for patients with MBC was 1.3 per 100,000 people for Ashkenazi Jews and 0.76 per 100,000 people for Sephardic Jews. | | | Ashkenazi Jewish men were at 80% greater risk of developing MBC than Sephardic Jewish men. | | | Because Ashkenazi Jews comprise one of the major ethnic groups in Israel, the authors conducted a local study to shed more light on the features of this rare disease. |
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http://www.annieappleseedproject.org/malbcainisin.html
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| | Ashkenazi Jewish Genetic Diseases - Lauren Gross (3/05) |
| | Most individuals with Canavan Disease die by the age of five. | | | Read on for information about diseases common in the Ashkenazi Jewish community. | | | An estimated 1 in 40 Ashkenazi Jews is a carrier for this disease. |
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http://www.uscj.org/Koach/kocmar05gross1.htm
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| | JEWISH MUSIC INSTITUTE - Ashkenazi Music |
| | The vernacular language was Yiddish, based on medieval German with Slavic and Hebrew words and written in Hebrew script. | | | 'Ashkenazi' (Hebrew for Germany) refers to the Jews who settled in the Rhineland of South West Germany and Northern France from about the third century CE. | | | Yiddish language and music travelled with Ashkenazi Jews as they moved to the new world. |
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http://www.jmi.org.uk/ashkenazimusic/index.html
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| | Ashkenazi Jew |
| | Wandering Thoughts on the Sephardim and Their Language, Ladino Essay by an Ashkenazi scholar at Dartmouth University. | | | It uses material from the Wiktionary page "Ashkenazi". | | | Molecular Genetics Testing Laboratory: Ashkenazi Jewish Genetic Disease Screen Information about a test for seven common inherited diseases in the Ashkenazi Jewish population: Tay-Sachs disease, Canavan disease, cystic fibrosis, Gaucher disease, Bloom syndrome, familial dysautonomia and Fanconi anemia. |
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http://www.serebella.com/encyclopedia/article-Ashkenazi_Jew.html
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| | Genetic Diseases in the Ashkenazi Jewish Population |
| | The first, Niemann-Pick disease manifests itself in several forms, but Types A and B Niemann-Pick disease are the ones more often seen in Ashkenazis. | | | Children with Tay-Sachs do not customarily reach the age of five. | | | As with Niemann-Pick, children with Canavan are inflicted with the gradual deterioration of their nervous systems and do not usually reach the age of five. |
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http://www.jewishmag.co.il/22MAG/DISEASE/disease.htm
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| | Israel - The Ashkenazi, Sephardi and Oriental |
| | Although this narrow understanding of Sephardim is still retained at times, in Israeli colloquial usage, Sephardim include Jews who speak (or whose fathers or grandfathers spoke) dialects of Arabic, Berber, or Persian as well. | | | Originally, Ashkenazi meant one who spoke Yiddish, a dialect of German, in everyday life and Sephardi meant one who spoke Ladino, a dialect of Castilian Spanish. | | | In some countries, Italy for example, communities representing both groups lived together. |
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http://www.countrystudies.us/israel/49.htm
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| | Ashkenazi's IQs - Stormfront White Nationalist Community |
| | While I have no doubt that Ashkenazis are bright folks I see some serious problems with the reasoning in that article. | | | What do you people think about Ashkenazi Jew's IQs? | | | It assumes that Jewish/non-Jewish Russians are equally as likely to learn to play chess, and I see no reason that this should be true. |
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http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=90307
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| | Ashkenazi Jews and Colorectal Cancer Link Found |
| | More than 2,000 people are diagnosed with colorectal cancer in Israel each year, with Ashkenazi Jews at a higher risk. | | | NEW YORK, N.Y. and HAIFA, ISRAEL, October 14, 2002 -- A genetic mutation often found in Ashkenazi Jews can triple the risk of colorectal cancer, according to a new Technion-Israel Institute of Technology study. | | | Nearly 150,000 people in the U.S. were diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 2002. |
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http://www.ats.org/news.php?id=47
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| | Ashkenazi Jewish Genetic Panel (AJGP) -- What are Ashkenazi Jewish genetic diseases? |
| | Ashkenazi Jewish genetic diseases are a group of rare disorders that occur more frequently in people of Eastern European (Ashkenazi) Jewish heritage than in the general population. | | | While most of these diseases are severe and life-limiting, some can be treated to reduce symptoms and prolong life. | | | Ashkenazi Jewish Genetic Panel (AJGP): What are Ashkenazi Jewish genetic diseases? |
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http://my.webmd.com/hw/health_guide_atoz/tv7880.asp
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| | Quest Diagnostics: Quest Diagnostics' Ashkenazi Jewish Panel. |
| | It is most frequently used for Ashkenazi Jews and their partners who are pregnant or contemplating pregnancy. | | | The panel simplifies test ordering for Ashkenazi Jewish individuals who wish to know their carrier status and/or their risk of having a child with any of these disorders. | | | This Ashkenazi Jewish Panel detects mutations associated with the following eight disorders that commonly occur in Ashkenazi-Jewish (Eastern European Jewish) individuals: |
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http://www.questdiagnostics.com/hcp/topics/ashkenazi/ashkenazi.html
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| | More Ashkenazi Jews Have Gene Defect that Raises Inherited Breast Cancer Risk |
| | In the October issue of Nature Genetics, the team reports that the BRCA2 gene mutation is found in one out of every 100 Ashkenazi Jews, a group that includes more than 90 percent of the six million Jews living in the United States. | | | When they analyzed a group of 107 Ashkenazi women with breast cancer -- all of whom had a family history of the disease -- they found a four-fold higher prevalence of the BRCA1 mutation. | | | Earlier studies have indicated that Ashkenazi women who have a mutant BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene face an 80 to 90 percent chance of getting breast cancer in their lifetimes, particularly at a young age. |
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http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/1996-10/MSCC-MAJH-011096.php
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| | Ashkenazi Jewish population frequencies for common mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 |
| | We have conducted a large-scale population study to investigate the prevalence of specific BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations in Ashkenazi Jewish individuals who were unselected for breast cancer. | | | A specific BRCA1 mutation, 185delAG, has a reported increased carrier frequency of approximately 0.9% in the Ashkenazi Jewish population, but is also found in rare non-Jewish patients with a different haplotype. | | | The 6174delT mutation in BRCA2 was recently identified as a frequent mutation in 8 out of 107 Ashkenazi Jewish women diagnosed with breast cancer by age 50 (ref. 8), as well as in three Ashkenazi male breast cancer patients. |
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http://imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de/cgi-bin/mycite?ExtRef=ICDB/96438856
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| | Recurrent BRCA2 6174delT mutations in Ashkenazi Jewish women affected by breast cancer |
| | Six of 80 Ashkenazi Jewish women (8%) diagnosed with breast cancer before the age of 42, wer heterozygous for the 6174delT mutation, compared to none of 93 non-Jewish women diagnosed with breast cancer at the same age (P =.005). | | | A single BRCA1 mutation, 185delAG, has been noted in approximately 20% of Ashkenazi Jewish women with early onset breast cancer and in 0.9% of the Ashkenazi population. | | | These cases were ascertained without regard to family history. |
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http://imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de/cgi-bin/mycite?ExtRef=ICDB/96241589
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| | Genzyme Genetics Adds Maple Syrup Urine Disease to its Ashkenazi Jewish Carrier Screening and Diagnostic Menu |
| | These statements speak only as of the date of this press release, and Genzyme undertakes no obligation to update or revise the statements. | | | Genzyme Genetics can detect 99% of Ashkenazi Jewish individuals who are carriers. | | | That's why we are adding MSUD to our carrier screening menu for the Ashkenazi Jewish community," explained Stirling M. Puck, M.D., national medical director at Genzyme Genetics. |
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http://www.genzymegenetics.com/about/news/gene_p_news_msud.asp
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| | Tests and Indications |
| | This test distinguishes the F508C, I507V, and I506V polymorphisms and the poly T allele is reported where clinically significant. | | | Among Ashkenazi Jews, a single founder mutation in the FANCC gene is responsible for 98% of cases of Fanconi Anemia in this population. | | | For non-Jewish individuals, chromosomal breakage studies should be considered. |
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http://cfar-www.med.nyu.edu/genetics/lab/ashkenazi_screen.html
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| | Women of Ashkenazi Jewish Descent Have Greater Risk of Breast Cancer |
| | "The discoveries presented in Nature Genetics about Ashkenazi women will assist physicians in determining who would benefit most from the genetic tests to be offered by Myriad. | | | The results of this report also suggest that these two common BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations may account for over 25% of all early onset breast cancer cases in Ashkenazi Jewish women. | | | These findings, in combination with earlier studies indicate that Ashkenazi Jewish women have a much greater risk of developing early onset hereditary breast cancer as a result of a defective BRCA2 or BRCA1 gene than women in the general population. |
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http://www.pslgroup.com/dg/7eaa.htm
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| | YIVO Institute for Jewish Research |
| | Headquartered in New York City since 1940, today YIVO is the world's preeminent resource center for East European Jewish Studies; Yiddish language, literature and folklore; and the American Jewish immigrant experience. | | | Founded in 1925 in Vilna, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania), as the Yiddish Scientific Institute, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is dedicated to the history and culture of Ashkenazi Jewry and to its influence in the Americas. |
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http://www.yivoinstitute.org
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| | Growing antimicrobial resistance of Shigella isolates -- Ashkenazi et al. 51 (2): 427 -- Journal of Antimicrobial ... |
| | This article has been cited by other articles: | | | Ashkenazi, S., May-Zahav, M., Sulkes, J., Zilberberg, R. and Samra, Z. Increasing antimicrobial resistance to Shigella isolates in Israel during the period 1984 to 1992. | | | Ashkenazi, S., May-Zahav, M., Dinari, G., Gabbay, U., Zilberberg, R. and Samra, Z. Recent trends in the epidemiology of Shigella species in Israel. |
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http://jac.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/full/51/2/427
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| | Marty Green Judaica Page |
| | Beautiful chanting of the Passover service in the Polish Ashkenazi nusakh. |
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http://www.onforeignsoil.com
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| | Ashkenazi jøder |
| | Zionismen opstod som ideologi i Østeuropa, og havde sit tyngdepunkt blandt Ashkenazi jøderne, der i 1948 udgjorde 80% af den jødiske befolkning i Israel. | | | Verdenskrig var Ashkenazi, så vurderes det at omkring 80% af verdens jøder er Ashkenazi, hvoraf flertallet lever i USA, Israel og Frankrig. | | | Arbejderpartiet, der historisk overvejende bestod af Ashkenazi jøder, og som sit havde den zionistiske bevægelse som sin oprindelse. |
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http://www.leksikon.org/art.php?n=3634
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| | Wolf Krakowski |
| | By the way, the text of Ashkenazi songs almost always are deeply meaningful; they may seem simple, but they are more often than not about essential and existential things, just like good blues is. Read out the following text loud (it's rather easy if you know some German), and contemplate it for yourself. | | | That may sound disrespectful in the ears of a "klezmer-purist", but the fact is that | | | There are more pearls of the Ashkenazi song-treasure on |
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http://home4.swipnet.se/%7Ew-40997/WolfEng.htm
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