Ashchenazim

Origin

Identical with Ashkenazim, but formed on the pattern of Ashchenaz, the spelling of the name of the Biblical figure found in the Bible's First Book of the Chronicles, as opposed to Ashkenaz, the spelling which occurs in the Book of Genesis.

Noun

noun

1. (rare) Alternative spelling of en
• 1845: rabbinical council in Jerusalem, edict forbidding Jews from entering the Jews' Hospital in Jerusalem; quoted in:
• 2003: Yaron Perry, British Mission to the Jews in Nineteenth-Century Palestine, page 74 (Routledge;… 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!) ...