English

Noun

Ashchenazim

1. (rare) Alternative spelling of Ashkenazim
   • 1845: [a rabbinical council in Jerusalem], [an 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; ISBN 9780714654164)

     […] 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!) […]