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  Ashkenazim
The first major Ashkenazi literary figure was Rashi (Solomon ben Isaac of Troyes, 1040-1105), whose commentaries on the Bible and Talmud are today considered fundamental to Jewish study.
Ashkenazi scholars focused on careful readings of the text and also on summarizing legal interpretations of former Ashkenazi and Sephardi scholars of Jewish law.
Ashkenazi and Sephardi tunes for both prayers and Torah reading are different.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Judaism/Ashkenazim.html   (1238 words)

  
 Jew - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ashkenazi · Sephardi · Mizrahi · Lost tribes
The most commonly used terms to describe ethnic divisions among Jews currently are: Ashkenazi (meaning "German" in Hebrew, denoting the Central European base of Jewry); and Sephardi (meaning "Spanish" or "Iberian" in Hebrew, denoting their Spanish, Portuguese and North African location).
Yiddish is the historic language of many Ashkenazi Jews, and Ladino of many Sephardic Jews.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jew   (6097 words)

  
 Jews, Jewish, The Jewish People - The Peace Encyclopedia
The aim of the study was to investigate the origin of the Ashkenazi gene pool through the analysis of markers which, having an exclusively holoandric transmission, are useful to estimate paternal gene flow.
The present study was aimed at elucidating the differential influx of HLA class II alleles in Ashkenazi, in various non-Ashkenazi subgroups and in Israeli Moslem Arabs.
This is consistent with historical data, Jews being an ancient Mediterranean population, who have had a certain degree of admixture with their 2000-3000 years old neighbors in spite of cultural and religious traditions which have preserved identity outside Israel.
www.yahoodi.com /peace/jews.html   (4562 words)

  
 JewishEncyclopedia.com - ASHKENAZI (TIKTIN), JUDAH B. SIMON SOFER FRANKFURT:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
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Ashkenazi's work was appended to the ShulḦan 'Aruk in the editions of Amsterdam, 1753 and 1760, and went through many editions.
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www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=1978&letter=A   (100 words)

  
 Judaism and Jewish Resources - Andrew Tannenbaum
Eric Simon keeps a list of Torah study opportunities on the net, with many pointers to Yeshivot and other organizations who provide Divrei Torah, including web sites and mailings lists.
Josh Sharfman's Virtual Cantor has mp3 recordings (over 700 tracks) of the entire year's davening in the Ashkenazi nusach (prayer melodies in the Eastern European tradition).
The Simon Wiesenthal Center has information about its projects.
www.shamash.org /trb/judaism.html   (7752 words)

  
 Internet Jewish History Sourcebook
The History of the Ashkenazi in Eastern Europe
Includes audio files of Ashkenazi, Sephardie and Yemani cantors.
The Not So Secret Relationship Between Jews and the Slave Trade: The Polemical Dimension, [At Simon Wiesenthal Center]
www.fordham.edu /halsall/jewish/jewishsbook.html   (5504 words)

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