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Why is the word Ashkenazi?

composed of the word Nazi?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    For the moment we will ignore the asker's record of anti-Jewish statements and claims, however evil they may be.

    The "z" in Ashkenazi is a zayin, while the "z" in Nazi is a tsade.

    There is no connection linguistically between the two.

    The word "Ashkenazi" comes from the biblical word Ashkenaz. This predates the murderous Nazis by 2000 years or so.

    Now perhaps the asker will have to look for another imaginative hateful connection to ask about.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Ashkenaz is the medieval Hebrew name for the region which in modern times encompasses the country of Germany and German-speaking borderland areas. Ashkenaz is also a Japhetic patriarch in the Table of Nations (Genesis 10). Thus, Ashkenazim or Ashkenazi Jews are literally "German Jews."

  • 1 decade ago

    Ashkenaz is the Hebrew word for Germany. Therefore, the Jews of Central and Eastern Europe are Ashkenazi Jews, since Germany was divided into even smaller kingdoms and fought each other. Some of the religious kingdoms expelled the Jews while the secular kingdoms invited them to come. In the 1260's, the king of Poland invited any Jew who could make it to Poland the right to live there equally among the Poles, as a result of persecutions due to the Plague. This lasted until 1939, when Adolf Hitler conquered Poland. Therefore, both Ashkenazi and Sephardi (comes from the Hebrew word Sephard, meaning Spain, but refers to the Jews who come from the Iberian Peninsula, including the descendants who were forced to leave Spain or convert to Catholicism in 1492 or like that of Portugal in 1497.) settled in Poland.

  • 1 decade ago

    Maybe the word ashkenazi is German

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    1 decade ago

    Your racism is showing.

    The words have no connection.

    Z in Nazi is TZ, and Z in Ashkenazi is Z.

    Now will the asker love the Jewish people?

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  • 1 decade ago

    Ashke means "a person who vehemently dislikes," so obviously Ashkenazi is a person who vehemently dislikes a Nazi.

  • 1 decade ago

    The Jews of Ashkenaz are the Jews descended from the medieval Jewish communities of the Rhineland.

    Ashkenaz is the medieval Hebrew name for the region which in modern times encompasses the country of Germany and German-speaking borderland areas. Thus, Ashkenazim or Ashkenazi Jews are literally "German Jews."

    Ashkenazi(in Hebrew grammer) means a person from Ashkenaz just as an American(or in Hebrew Americai) means a person from America.

    Because Jews come from different backgrounds then we say these Jews are from Iraq, these Jews are from France etc', then in order to make it easier we put all the middle eastern Jews(and sometimes the Spanish Jews) in one category - Mizrahim/Sparadim and all the Europian Jews in one category - Ashkenazis(or in correct Hebrew Eshkenasim) even though the Ashkenazi Jews are litteraly only from Germany.

    Technically Ashkenazis are all people from Germany, Jews and non-Jews but because we categorize ourselves by background then this word has come to mean only German(or in general - European) Jews.

    The word "Ashkenazi" is pronounced with a z sound, not with ts as in Nazi(Natsi) but since your comparing I would see this as an Amazing hidden prophecy, from Ashkenaz came the Nazi's, the Ashkenazi Jews are simply people who survived and immigrated from that evil country.

  • 1 decade ago

    The question is meant only to express raw hatred.

    There is no connection, and I think the asker knows that very well.

  • 1 decade ago

    the ancient word for germany (strange but true) was Ashkenaz in hebrew (the word is biblica, actually) and the suffix "i" means "from that place" like Israeli.

    so there is no etymological connection to Nazi (as it the national socialist party) as wiki explains it

    The term Nazi is derived from the first two syllables of Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, [9] the official German language name of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (commonly known in English as the Nazi Party). Party members rarely referred to themselves as Nazis, and instead used the official term, Nationalsozialisten (National Socialists). The word mirrors the term Sozi,[15] a common and slightly derogatory term for members of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands).[16]

  • 1 decade ago

    wtf!? those words are nothing alike!!!!! ashkenazi is from a different culture or part of israel and natzi r bad ppl

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