Rashi had no sons and taught the Mishnah and Talmud to his daughters, until they knew it by heart as Jewish tradition teaches, they then transferred their knowledge of original Mishnah commentary to the Ashkenazi men of the next generation.

Rabbi Solevetchik taught all religious Ashkenazi Jews with the exception of hardline Hasidim, not should, or if they show motivation, but must teach their female children Gemarah like the boy school children.

* Ashkenazic Orthodox Jews have traditionally based most of their practices on the Rema, the gloss on the Shulchan Aruch by Rabbi Moses Isserles, reflecting differences between Ashkenazi and Sephardi custom.

Each participant dips a vegetable into either salt water ( Ashkenazi custom ; said to serve as a reminder of the tears shed by their enslaved ancestors ), vinegar ( Sephardi custom ) or charoset ( older Sephardi custom ; still common among Yemenite Jews ).

While a significant portion of Israeli Jews still retain memories of their Sephardic, Ashkenazi and Mizrahi origins, mixed Jewish marriages among the communities are very common.

Though the majority of their children attended Great Neck schools, they did not integrate into the existing Ashkenazi synagogues, instead starting their own Iranian synagogues, where they could follow Mizrahi traditions.

Aside from German Jews and Oberlander Jews, men in most Ashkenazi communities ( which comprise the majority of Jews today ) start wearing the tallit after their wedding.

Although in the 11th century, they composed only three percent of the world's Jewish population, at their peak in 1931, Ashkenazi Jews accounted for 92 percent of the world's Jews.

found that Ashkenazi Jews were most closely clustered with Arabic North African populations when compared to Global population, and in the European structure analysis, they share similarities only with Greeks and Southern Italians, reflecting their east Mediterranean origins.

The study examines genetic markers spread across the entire genome and shows that the Jewish groups ( Ashkenazi and non Ashkenazi ) share large swaths of DNA, indicating close relationships and that each of the Jewish groups in the study ( Iranian, Iraqi, Syrian, Italian, Turkish, Greek and Ashkenazi ) has its own genetic signature but is more closely related to the other Jewish groups than to their fellow non-Jewish countrymen.

In their press release, Bray stated: " We were surprised to find evidence that Ashkenazi Jews have higher heterozygosity than Europeans, contradicting the widely-held presumption that they have been a largely isolated group ".

The language became extinct some time in the Middle Ages, possibly due to expansion of the Ashkenazi culture and their own Yiddish language based on German.

In 1720 their synagogue was burned down and all Ashkenazi Jews were banned by the Ottomans.

During certain parts of the Amidah said on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, Ashkenazi Jews traditionally go down to the floor upon their knees and make their upper body bowed over like an arch, similar to Muslims, though not exactly in the same manner.

Though they do not identify with Christian democracy directly, being Judaic, Israel's Shas ( orthodox Sephardic Orthodox party ) and United Torah Judaism ( orthodox Ashkenazi party ) are politically similar to Christian democratic parties, due to their combination of conservative social and religious policies with an emphasis on increased social spending.

That being said, Sephardic and Mizrachi Rabbis tend to hold different, and generally more lenient, positions on halacha than their Ashkenazi counterparts, but since these positions are based on rulings of Talmudic scholars as well as well documented traditions that can be linked back to well known codifiers of Jewish law, Ashkenazi and Hasidic Rabbis do not believe that these positions are incorrect, but rather that they are the appropriate interpretation of halacha for Jews of Sephardic and Mizrachi descent.

Many were Ashkenazi Jews, who brought with them their swift, eminently dance-able klezmer music.

Borscht Belt hotels, bungalow colonies, summer camps, and קא ָ ך-א ַ ליינס kuchaleyns ( a Yiddish name for self-catered boarding houses, literally, " cook-alones ") were frequented by middle and working class Jewish New Yorkers, mostly Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants and their children and grandchildren, particularly in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s.

According to Zuckermann, although the revivalists wished to speak Hebrew, with Semitic grammar and pronunciation, they could not avoid the Ashkenazi mindset arising from their European background.

Yiddish ( yidish or idish, literally " Jewish ") is a High German language of Ashkenazi Jewish origin, spoken in many parts of the world.

The schism was between the various ' group thinks ' within the kabbalistic mystical communities of the descendants of the French and German Jews called at some point Ashkenazi, but more accurately should be described as the diverse Yiddish speaking world.

Jews of Ashkenazi descent have traditionally used the Yiddish term " shul " ( cognate with the German Schule, school ) in everyday speech.

Brith Sholom Beth Israel is the oldest Orthodox synagogue in the South, founded by Ashkenazi ( German and Central European Jews ) Jews in the mid-19th century.

Cixous was born in Oran, French Algeria, to a German Ashkenazi Jewish mother, Eve ( née Klein ), and a French Pied-noir Sephardic Jewish father, Georges Cixous.

Most of the mid-19th century Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants to the US came from German-speaking states, as part of the larger concurrent German migration.

Jews quickly created support networks consisting of many small synagogues and Ashkenazi Jewish Landsmannschaften ( German for " Territorial Associations ") for Jews from the same town or village.

Benjamin and his younger siblings, Georg ( 1895 – 1942 ) and Dora ( 1901 – 1946 ) were born to a wealthy business family of assimilated Ashkenazi Jews in the Berlin of the German Empire ( 1871 – 1918 ).

Fürst is also a German, Hungarian and / or Jewish ( Ashkenazi ) surname.

This line is of German / Polish-Jewish ( Ashkenazi ) origin.

Gefilte fish (; from, German: gefüllter Fisch " stuffed fish ") is an Ashkenazi Jewish dish made from a poached mixture of ground boned fish, such as carp, whitefish or pike, which is typically eaten as an appetizer.

Friedman, Friedmann, and Freedman are surnames of German origin, and from the 17th century were also adopted by Ashkenazi Jews.

Greenberg is a surname common in North America, with anglicized spelling of the German Grünberg ( green mountain ) or the Jewish Ashkenazi Yiddish Grinberg, an artificial surname.

Wertheim is a German Christian family and Ashkenazi Jewish surname originated from Wertheim or Wertheim County.

The schnitzel tradition was brought to Israel by Ashkenazi Jews coming from Europe, among them some of German origin.

This is especially common among Ashkenazic Jews, because most of their European names were taken later and some were imposed by the German and Austro-Hungarian Empires ( explaining why many Ashkenazi Jews have German or European-sounding names ).

( German Jews also founded the Ashkenazi Jewish community in the Dark and Middle Ages.

While only the 41st state to enter the union ( 1889 ) and only 44th in population ( 4 Western and 2 Eastern states have fewer people ), the state is very diverse in its European-descended population ; Cornish, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, French-Canadian, Norwegian, Faroese, Finnish, Slovak, Serbian, Luxembourgish, Northern and Southern Italian, Ashkenazi Jewish, Cajun, Swiss German, and Basque are just some of the ethnicities / nationalities of Europeans who settled in the territory, and then state.

Birnbaum is a German and Ashkenazi Jewish surname that can refer to:

Immigrants brought with them the Eastern European polka, Chinese and Japanese music, Ukrainian and Polish fiddling, Scottish and Irish music, Ashkenazi Jewish klezmer, and other styles of Indian, Russian, French, German, Italian, Arab and Latin music.

Feldman is a common German and Ashkenazi Jewish surname.

Reincarnation, called gilgul, became popular in folk belief, and is found in much Yiddish literature among Ashkenazi Jews.

** Yiddish language – a High-German language with Hebrew and Slavic influence, used by Ashkenazi Jews

Hasidic Judaism or Hasidism, from the — () in Sephardi Hebrew, () in Ashkenazi Hebrew and Yiddish, meaning " piety " ( or " loving kindness "), is a branch of Orthodox Judaism that promotes spirituality through the popularisation and internalisation of Jewish mysticism as the fundamental aspects of the Jewish faith.

גלגול הנשמות ) refers to the concept of reincarnation in Kabbalistic Judaism, found in much Yiddish literature among Ashkenazi Jews.

For a significant portion of its history, Yiddish was the primary spoken language of the Ashkenazi Jews and once spanned a broad dialect continuum from Western Yiddish to three major groups within Eastern Yiddish, namely Litvish, Poylish and Ukrainish.

For instance, the plural of yeshiva is yeshivas rather than yeshivois as in Ashkenazi Hebrew ( although this is similar to the plural form in Yiddish ).

This hypothesis is often backed up with a large number of Yiddish loanwords of Slavic origin, many of which were no longer in use in Slavic languages themselves at the time of the Ashkenazi expansion.

The Star of David, known in Hebrew as the Shield of David or Magen David ( Hebrew ; Biblical Hebrew Māḡēn Dāwīḏ, Tiberian, Modern Hebrew, Ashkenazi Hebrew and Yiddish Mogein Dovid or Mogen Dovid ) is a generally recognized symbol of Jewish identity and Judaism.

The Ashkenazi pronunciation as in Yiddish, is esrog or esrig.

Potato pancakes are commonly associated with traditional cuisines of Luxembourg ( gromperekichelcher ), Latvia ( as kartupeļu pankūkas ), Lithuania ( as bulviniai blynai ), Austria, Belarus ( as draniki ), Germany ( e. g. as Kartoffelpuffer ), Poland ( as placki ziemniaczane ), Ukraine ( as deruny ), Ashkenazi Jewry ( as latkes or latkas ( Yiddish: לא ַ טקעס, Hebrew: לביבה levivah, plural לביבות levivot )), Hungary, Slovakia, Persia and the Czech Rep. ( as bramborák or cmunda ), although other cuisines have adopted similar dishes.

The vowel qamatz gadol, which in the accepted Sephardic pronunciation is rendered as, becomes in Ashkenazi Hebrew ( and therefore in Yiddish ).

Shalom () ( Sephardic Hebrew / Israeli Hebrew: shalom ; Ashkenazi Hebrew / Yiddish: sholom, sholem, shoilem, shulem ) is a Hebrew word meaning peace, completeness, and welfare and can be used idiomatically to mean both hello and goodbye.

Many Ashkenazi communities in the Jewish diaspora use Yiddish Gut shabbes in preference or interchangeably.

Trachtenberg ( or Trachtenburg ) ( Russian: < font lang = ru > Трахтенберг </ font >, Yiddish: < font lang = he > טרא ַ כ ֿ טנבערג </ font >; Hebrew: < font lang = he > טרחטנברג </ font > or < font lang = he > טרכטנברג </ font >) is a surname of several notable people, typically an Ashkenazi Jewish surname, especially Bessarabian and Ukrainian.

Yiddish is the Judeo-German language developed by Ashkenazi Jews who migrated to Central Europe, and Ladino, also called Judezmo and Muestra Spanyol, is the Judeo-Spanish language developed by Sephardic Jews who lived in the Iberian peninsula.

Yiddish was historically a common language of Ashkenazi ( Central and Eastern European ) Jews.