Ashkenazi Jews

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Ashkenazi Jews are a major Jewish ethnoreligious group historically centered in Central and Eastern Europe, with distinct cultural, religious, and linguistic traditions such as Yiddish.

All labels observed (33)

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (64)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Jewish ethnoreligious group ⓘ
ethnic group ⓘ
religious community ⓘ
ancestralOrigin Jews of the Holy Roman Empire ⓘ
cuisineItem Bagel ⓘ
Challah ⓘ
Cholent ⓘ
Gefilte fish ⓘ
Kugel ⓘ
Latkes ⓘ
culturalMarker Ashkenazi cuisine ⓘ
Klezmer music ⓘ
Yiddish theatre ⓘ
culturalTradition Ashkenazi culture ⓘ
demographicSignificance largest Jewish ethnocultural division in modern times ⓘ
diasporaCommunity Argentina ⓘ
Australia ⓘ
Canada ⓘ
France ⓘ
Israel ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ
United States ⓘ
distinctFrom Mizrahi tradition ⓘ
Sephardi tradition ⓘ
ethnicReligion Judaism ⓘ
ethnoreligiousTradition Judaism ⓘ
experiencedEvent Holocaust ⓘ
halakhicAuthorityTradition Rashi ⓘ
Rema ⓘ
historicalCenter German-speaking lands ⓘ
Hungary ⓘ
Lithuania ⓘ
Poland ⓘ
Russia ⓘ
Ukraine ⓘ
historicalLanguage Middle High German dialects ⓘ
language Hebrew ⓘ
Yiddish ⓘ
liturgicalLanguage Hebrew ⓘ
majorPopulationIn State of Israel ⓘ
linked to: Israel

United States ⓘ
nameEtymology derived from the Hebrew term Ashkenaz for Germanic lands ⓘ
persecutionRegion Nazi-occupied Europe ⓘ
primaryHistoricalRegion Central Europe ⓘ
Eastern Europe ⓘ
relatedGroup Mizrahi Jews ⓘ
Romaniote Jews ⓘ
Sephardi Jews ⓘ
Yemenite Jews ⓘ
religion Judaism ⓘ
religiousDenominationsPresent Conservative Judaism ⓘ
Haredi Judaism ⓘ
linked to: Haredi Jews

Hasidic Judaism ⓘ
linked to: Hasidism

Orthodox Judaism ⓘ
Reform Judaism ⓘ
religiousLawTradition Halakha ⓘ
religiousTradition Ashkenazi Judaism ⓘ
linked to: Ashkenazi Jews
rite Ashkenazi rite ⓘ
linked to: Nusach Ashkenaz
traditionalDressVariant Hasidic dress ⓘ
traditionalHolidayFoods Passover matzah-based dishes ⓘ
Purim hamantaschen ⓘ
Rosh Hashanah honey cake ⓘ
traditionalMusic Klezmer ⓘ
vernacularLanguage Yiddish ⓘ

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Referenced by (441)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Einstein family → ethnicGroup → Ashkenazi Jews ⓘ
Yitzhak Rabin → ethnicGroup → Ashkenazi Jews ⓘ
Sefer HaBahir → associatedWith → Ashkenazic Hasidim ⓘ
linked to: Ashkenazi Jews
Dominique Strauss-Kahn → ethnicGroup → Ashkenazi Jews ⓘ
Musaf → usedBy → Ashkenazi communities ⓘ
linked to: Ashkenazi Jews
Bahir → associatedWith → Ashkenazi Hasidim ⓘ
linked to: Ashkenazi Jews
Machzor → usedBy → Ashkenazi Jews ⓘ
Kol Nidre → recitedBy → Ashkenazi Jews ⓘ
Jewish Americans → ethnicOrigin → Ashkenazi Jews ⓘ
Jewish Americans → ethnicOrigin → Russian Jews ⓘ
linked to: Ashkenazi Jews
James Franck → ethnicGroup → German Jews ⓘ
linked to: Ashkenazi Jews
Klein → ethnicOrigin → Ashkenazi Jewish ⓘ
linked to: Ashkenazi Jews
Louis Slotin → ethnicGroup → Ashkenazi Jews ⓘ
Palestinian Jews → hasPart → Ashkenazi Jews ⓘ
Finkelstein → hasEthnicAssociation → Ashkenazi Jews ⓘ
Goldberg → usedByEthnicGroup → Ashkenazi Jews ⓘ
Charles Schumer → ethnicGroup → Ashkenazi Jews ⓘ
Georgian Jews → relatedEthnicGroup → Ashkenazi Jews ⓘ
Walter A. Haas Sr. → ethnicGroup → German-Jewish Americans ⓘ
linked to: Ashkenazi Jews
Italkim → distinctFrom → Ashkenazi Jews ⓘ
Woody Allen → ethnicGroup → Ashkenazi Jews ⓘ
Hungarian Jews → partOf → Ashkenazi Jews ⓘ
Rosh → originRegion → Ashkenaz ⓘ
linked to: Ashkenazi Jews
Mapah → religiousSubtradition → Ashkenazi Judaism ⓘ
linked to: Ashkenazi Jews
Mapah → associatedCommunity → Ashkenazi Jewry ⓘ
linked to: Ashkenazi Jews
Mapah → geographicFocus → Ashkenaz (Central and Eastern Europe) ⓘ
linked to: Ashkenazi Jews
Moshe Isserles → ethnicGroup → Ashkenazi Jew ⓘ
subject linked to: Rabbi Moshe Isserles
linked to: Ashkenazi Jews
Maoz Tzur → probablePlaceOfComposition → Ashkenaz (German lands) ⓘ
linked to: Ashkenazi Jews
Hanukkah gelt → hasCulturalRegion → Ashkenazi Jewish communities ⓘ
linked to: Ashkenazi Jews
Nazi camp system → victimGroup → European Jews ⓘ
linked to: Ashkenazi Jews
Czech Jews → partOf → Ashkenazi Jews ⓘ
Ginnifer Goodwin → ethnicGroup → Ashkenazi Jews ⓘ
Purim spiels → originatedIn → Ashkenazi Jewish communities ⓘ
linked to: Ashkenazi Jews
Endlösung der Judenfrage → target → European Jews ⓘ
linked to: Ashkenazi Jews
Unetaneh Tokef → recitedBy → Ashkenazi Jewish communities ⓘ
linked to: Ashkenazi Jews
Unetaneh Tokef → geographicOriginHypothesis → Ashkenaz (German lands) ⓘ
linked to: Ashkenazi Jews
Bronstein → usedByEthnicGroup → Ashkenazi Jews ⓘ
Nusach Ashkenaz → usedBy → Ashkenazi Jews ⓘ
Nusach Ashkenaz → associatedWith → Ashkenazi Judaism ⓘ
linked to: Ashkenazi Jews
Joseph Buloff → hasCulturalHeritage → Ashkenazi Jewish culture ⓘ
linked to: Ashkenazi Jews
Bruno Mars → ethnicOrigin → Ashkenazi Jewish ⓘ
linked to: Ashkenazi Jews
Aleinu → usedBy → Ashkenazi Jews ⓘ
Darren Aronofsky → ethnicGroup → Ashkenazi Jews ⓘ
Avinu Malkeinu → tradition → Ashkenazi ⓘ
linked to: Ashkenazi Jews
Levy → isCommonAmong → Ashkenazi Jews ⓘ
The Seven Good Years → culturalContext → Ashkenazi Jewish culture ⓘ
linked to: Ashkenazi Jews
Stories and Pictures → associatedWith → Ashkenazi Jewish culture ⓘ
linked to: Ashkenazi Jews