Ashkenazi
/ˌæʃkəˈnæzɪ/noun
(pl. Ashkenazim /-zɪm/)
- a Jew of central or eastern European descent. More than 80 per cent of Jews today are Ashkenazim; they preserve Palestinian rather than Babylonian Jewish traditions and some still use Yiddish.德系犹太人（中欧裔或东欧裔犹太人。今天80％的犹太人是德系犹太人; 他们沿袭巴勒斯坦犹太人而非巴比伦犹太人的传统, 现仍有部分人使用意第绪语）。比较SEPHARDI.
派生词
Ashkenazic
adjective词源
from modern Hebrew， from Ashkenaz, son of Japheth， one of the sons of Noah （Gen. 10:3）.