• Ashkenazi Hebrew (Hebrew: הגייה אשכנזית, romanized: Hagiyya Ashkenazit, Yiddish: אַשכּנזישע הבֿרה, romanized: Ashkenazishe Havore) is the pronunciation...
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    Ashkenazi Jews (/ˌɑːʃkəˈnɑːzi, ˌæʃ-/ A(H)SH-kə-NAH-zee; Hebrew: יְהוּדֵי אַשְׁכְּנַז, romanized: Yehudei Ashkenaz, lit. 'Jews of Germania'; Yiddish: אַשכּנזישע...
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    Lior Ashkenazi (Hebrew: ליאור אשכנזי; born 28 December 1968) is an Israeli actor, voice actor, comedian and television presenter. Regarded as one of the...
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  • not [ei] as may be found in Ashkenazi Hebrew Holam is pronounced [o(ː)], not [au] or [oi] as may be found in Ashkenazi Hebrew Kamats gadol is pronounced...
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    words. Despite using Sephardic Hebrew pronunciation as its primary basis, modern Israeli Hebrew has adapted to Ashkenazi Hebrew phonology in some respects...
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  • Maor Ashkenazi (Hebrew: מאור אשכנזי; born June 23, 2000) is an Israeli rapper and composer. He co-wrote and produced the single "Noam's Song 2" with Noam...
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    Gabriel "Gabi" Ashkenazi (Hebrew: גַבִּי אַשְׁכְּנַזִּי; born 25 February 1954) is an Israeli politician and former military leader. He previously served...
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  • styles of handwriting the Hebrew alphabet. Modern Hebrew, especially in informal use in Israel, is handwritten with the Ashkenazi cursive script that had...
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    Greek), and Ashkenazi rites; however, the general concept of religious poems to be sung during prayer is now common in all rites. Hebrew was used not...
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  • Ashkenazi (Hebrew: אַשְׁכְּנַזִּי) is a surname of Jewish origin. The term Ashkenaz (Hebrew: אַשְׁכְּנַז) refers to the area along the Rhine in Western...
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  • Arabic. Though an Ashkenazi Jew in the Russian Empire, the Zionist Eliezer Ben-Yehuda based his Standard Hebrew on Sephardi Hebrew, originally spoken...
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    Tzvi Hirsch ben Yaakov Ashkenazi (Hebrew: צבי אשכנזי‎; 1656 – 2 May 1718), known as the Chacham Tzvi after his responsa by the same title, served for...
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    Adi Ashkenazi (Hebrew: עדי אשכנזי; born 23 March 1975) is an Israeli actress, comedian and television host. Ashkenazi was born in Herzliya, Israel. Her...
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  • of the Hebrew language, both past and present. Spoken dialects: Modern Hebrew Ashkenazi Hebrew Sephardi Hebrew Mizrahi Hebrew Yemenite Hebrew Tiberian...
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    Isaac ben Solomon Luria Ashkenazi (Hebrew: יִצְחָק בן שלמה לוּרְיָא אשכנזי; c. 1534 – July 25, 1572), commonly known in Jewish religious circles as Ha'ari...
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  • "these" In Ashkenazi Hebrew, as well as Krymchaki Hebrew, tav without dagesh is pronounced [s] as in "silk" In Iraqi and Yemenite Hebrew, and formerly...
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  • and Ashkenazi Hebrew. Other hypercorrections occur when speakers of Israeli Hebrew (which is based on Sephardic) attempt to pronounce Ashkenazi Hebrew, for...
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  • Kamatz (category Articles containing Hebrew-language text)
    pataḥ in modern Hebrew. In a minority of cases it indicates the phoneme /o/, equal to the sound of ḥolam. In traditional Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation...
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    hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry, often called the Khazar myth by its critics, is a largely abandoned historical hypothesis that postulated that Ashkenazi Jews...
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  • Bezalel ben Abraham Ashkenazi (Hebrew: בצלאל בן אברהם אשכנזי) (c. 1520 – c. 1592) was a rabbi and talmudist who lived in Ottoman Israel during the 16th...
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    (liturgical) Sanaani Hebrew (liturgical) Sephardi Hebrew (liturgical) Ashkenazi Hebrew (liturgical) Mizrahi Hebrew (liturgical) Modern Hebrew (State of Israel)...
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    Yiddish (category Ashkenazi Jews topics)
    Europe and Anatolia. In the medieval Hebrew of Rashi (d. 1105), Ashkenaz becomes a term for Germany, and אשכּנזי Ashkenazi for the Jews settling in this area...
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  • prophets something concrete to visualize. The torat hakavod (Hebrew תורת הכבוד) of the Ashkenazi Hasidim echoes Saadia's theory, but with a fundamental difference...
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    Psalm 30. Qāmaṣ gāḏôl/Qamac qadol is pronounced /ɔː/, as in Ashkenazi Hebrew and Tiberian Hebrew. The Yemenite pronunciation for Qamats gadol (קמץ גדול‎)...
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    Hasidic Judaism (category Articles containing Hebrew-language text)
    sometimes spelled Chassidism, and also known as Hasidic Judaism (Ashkenazi Hebrew: חסידות Ḥăsīdus, [χasiˈdus]; originally, "piety"), is a religious movement...
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  • Ashkenazi Jews in Israel refers to immigrants and descendants of Ashkenazi Jews, who now reside within the state of Israel, in the modern sense also referring...
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  • Malkiel (also spelled Malchiel) Ashkenazi (Hebrew: מלכיאל אשכנזי) was a Sephardic rabbi and leader of the Jewish community in Hebron in 1540. The story...
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  • Mizrahi Hebrew – Mizrahi Jews, liturgical Yemenite Hebrew – Yemenite Jews, liturgical Sephardi Hebrew – Sephardi Jews, liturgical Ashkenazi Hebrew – Ashkenazi...
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    was less common among them than among Ashkenazi Jews; Sephardi and Mizrahi children were typically given new Hebrew names in school, often without permission...
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  • Begadkefat (category Hebrew language)
    acoustically and phonologically indistinguishable. In Ashkenazi Hebrew and in Yiddish borrowings from Ashkenazi Hebrew, ת‎ without dagesh still denotes a fricative...
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