Ashchenazim

English Etymology Identical with en Ashkenazim, but formed on the pattern of en Ashchenaz, the spelling of the name of the Biblical figure found in the Bible's First Book of the Chronicles, as opposed to en Ashkenaz, the spelling which occurs in the Book of Genesis. Noun en noun en rare en Ashkenazim. 1845: [a rabbinical council in Jerusalem], [an edict forbidding Jews from entering the Jews' Hospital in Jerusalem]; quoted in: en 2003 Yaron Perry British Mission to the Jews in Nineteenth-Century Palestine http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=STFych5mKCIC&pg=PA74&dq=%22Ashchenazim%22&ei=TU82Sva8CZu8M9yYwesL#PPA74,M1 74 Routledge 9780714654164 […] the chief, great, wise & learned man of the holy congregation of the Sephardim, met together with the chiefs & leaders of the holy congregation of the Ashchenazim Perushim & Khasidim, who reside here in Jerusalem our holy & glorious city (may she be built & established!)