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They established communities throughout Central and Eastern Europe, which had been their primary region of concentration and residence until recent times, evolving their own distinctive characteristics and diasporic identities. In the late Middle Ages the center of gravity of the Ashkenazi population, and its traditional cultural life, shifted steadily eastward, out of the German lands into Poland and Lithuania (including present-day Belarus and Ukraine). In the course of the late 18th and 19th centuries, those Jews who remained in or returned to the German lands experienced a cultural reorientation; under the influence of the Haskalah and the struggle for emancipation, as well the intellectual and cultural ferment in urban centers, they gradually abandoned the use of Yiddish, while developing new forms of Jewish religious life and cultural identity.

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Q: In the late Middle Ages, the Ashkenazi population shifted in which direction?
A: shifted steadily eastward', '
Q: In the late Middle Ages, as the Ashkenazi population shifted it moved from what location?
A: German lands', '
Q: In the late Middle Ages, as the Ashkenazi population shifted it moved into which location?
A: Poland and Lithuania (including present-day Belarus and Ukraine)', '
Q: In the late 18th and 19th centuries, Jews who returned to German lands experienced what?
A: a cultural reorientation']
The name Ashkenazi derives from the biblical figure of Ashkenaz, the first son of Gomer, son of Khaphet, son of Noah, and a Japhetic patriarch in the Table of Nations (Genesis 10). The name of Gomer has often been linked to the ethnonym Cimmerians. Biblical Ashkenaz is usually derived from Assyrian Aškūza (cuneiform Aškuzai/Iškuzai), a people who expelled the Cimmerians from the Armenian area of the Upper Euphrates, whose name is usually associated with the name of the Scythians. The intrusive n in the Biblical name is likely due to a scribal error confusing a waw ו with a nun נ.

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Q: The name of Ashkenazi derives from which biblical figure?
A: Ashkenaz', '
Q: Ashkenaz was the first son of whom?
A: Gomer', '
Q: The name of Gomer has often been linked to what ethnonym?
A: Cimmerians', '
Q: Assyrian Aškūza expelled which group from the Armenian area of the Upper Euphrates?
A: Cimmerians']
The genome-wide genetic study carried out in 2010 by Behar et al. examined the genetic relationships among all major Jewish groups, including Ashkenazim, as well as the genetic relationship between these Jewish groups and non-Jewish ethnic populations. The study found that contemporary Jews (excluding Indian and Ethiopian Jews) have a close genetic relationship with people from the Levant. The authors explained that "the most parsimonious explanation for these observations is a common genetic origin, which is consistent with an historical formulation of the Jewish people as descending from ancient Hebrew and Israelite residents of the Levant".

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Q: Recent studies have found that contemporary Jews (excluding Indian and Ethiopian Jews) have a close genetic relationship to the people of what area?
A: the Levant', '
Q: The genome-wide genetic study carried out in 2010 by Behar et al. examined the genetic relationships among which Jewish groups?
A: all major Jewish groups', '
Q: The genome-wide genetic study carried out in 2010 by Behar et al. examined the genetic relationship between Jewish groups and what other population?
A: non-Jewish ethnic populations']
The history of Jews in Greece goes back to at least the Archaic Era of Greece, when the classical culture of Greece was undergoing a process of formalization after the Greek Dark Age. The Greek historian Herodotus knew of the Jews, whom he called "Palestinian Syrians", and listed them among the levied naval forces in service of the invading Persians. While Jewish monotheism was not deeply affected by Greek Polytheism, the Greek way of living was attractive for many wealthier Jews. The Synagogue in the Agora of Athens is dated to the period between 267 and 396 CE. The Stobi Synagogue in Macedonia, was built on the ruins of a more ancient synagogue in the 4th century, while later in the 5th century, the synagogue was transformed into Christian basilica.

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Q: The history of Jews in Greece goes back to which era?
A: Archaic Era of Greece', '
Q: Which Greek historian knew of the Jews?
A: Herodotus', '
Q: The Synagogue in the Agora of Athens is dated to the period between which two dates?
A: 267 and 396 CE', '
Q: What did the Greek historian Herodotus refer to the Jews as?
A: "Palestinian Syrians"', '
Q: The Greek historian Herodotus listed the Jews as the levied naval forces in service to whom?
A: the invading Persians']
In an essay on Sephardi Jewry, Daniel Elazar at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs summarized the demographic history of Ashkenazi Jews in the last thousand years, noting that at the end of the 11th century, 97% of world Jewry was Sephardic and 3% Ashkenazi; by the end of XVI century, the: 'Treaty on the redemption of captives', by Gracian of the God's Mother, Mercy Priest, who was imprisoned by Turks, cites a Tunisian Hebrew, made captive when arriving to Gaeta, who aided others with money, named: 'Simon Escanasi', in the mid-17th century, "Sephardim still outnumbered Ashkenazim three to two", but by the end of the 18th century, "Ashkenazim outnumbered Sephardim three to two, the result of improved living conditions in Christian Europe versus the Ottoman Muslim world." By 1931, Ashkenazi Jews accounted for nearly 92% of world Jewry. These factors are sheer demography showing the migration patterns of Jews from Southern and Western Europe to Central and Eastern Europe.

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Q: According to Daniel Elazar at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, at the end of the 11th century, what percentage of the world's Jewry was Sephardic?
A: 97%", "
Q: According to Daniel Elazar at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, at the end of the 11th century, what percentage of the world's Jewry was Ashkenazi?
A: 3%", '
Q: By 1931, Ashkenazi Jews were what percentage of the world Jewry?
A: 92%']
In Israel, the term Ashkenazi is now used in a manner unrelated to its original meaning, often applied to all Jews who settled in Europe and sometimes including those whose ethnic background is actually Sephardic. Jews of any non-Ashkenazi background, including Mizrahi, Yemenite, Kurdish and others who have no connection with the Iberian Peninsula, have similarly come to be lumped together as Sephardic. Jews of mixed background are increasingly common, partly because of intermarriage between Ashkenazi and non-Ashkenazi, and partly because many do not see such historic markers as relevant to their life experiences as Jews.

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Q: In Israel, the term Ashkenazi is now used in what manner?
A: in a manner unrelated to its original meaning', '
Q: In Israel, the term Ashkenazi is now used to refer to whom?
A: all Jews who settled in Europe and sometimes including those whose ethnic background is actually Sephardic', '
Q: Are Jews of mixed backgrounds more or less common today?
A: Jews of mixed background are increasingly common']
In this respect, the counterpart of Ashkenazi is Sephardic, since most non-Ashkenazi Orthodox Jews follow Sephardic rabbinical authorities, whether or not they are ethnically Sephardic. By tradition, a Sephardic or Mizrahi woman who marries into an Orthodox or Haredi Ashkenazi Jewish family raises her children to be Ashkenazi Jews; conversely an Ashkenazi woman who marries a Sephardi or Mizrahi man is expected to take on Sephardic practice and the children inherit a Sephardic identity, though in practice many families compromise. A convert generally follows the practice of the beth din that converted him or her. With the integration of Jews from around the world in Israel, North America, and other places, the religious definition of an Ashkenazi Jew is blurring, especially outside Orthodox Judaism.

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Q: By tradition, when a Sephardic or Mizrahi woman marries into an Orthodox or Haredi Ashkenazi Jewish family she raises her children to be which type of Jew?
A: Ashkenazi Jews', '
Q: When an Ashkenazi woman marries a Sephardi or Mizrahi man it is expected that her children will take on which kind of identity?
A: children inherit a Sephardic identity', '
Q: A convert generally follows which practice?
A: the practice of the beth din that converted him or her']
But after emancipation, a sense of a unified French Jewry emerged, especially when France was wracked by the Dreyfus affair in the 1890s. In the 1920s and 1930s, Ashkenazi Jews from Europe arrived in large numbers as refugees from antisemitism, the Russian revolution, and the economic turmoil of the Great Depression. By the 1930s, Paris had a vibrant Yiddish culture, and many Jews were involved in diverse political movements. After the Vichy years and the Holocaust, the French Jewish population was augmented once again, first by Ashkenazi refugees from Central Europe, and later by Sephardi immigrants and refugees from North Africa, many of them francophone.

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Q: When did the Dreyfus affair occur?
A: 1890s', '
Q: In what years did large numbers of Jews arrive in France?
A: the 1920s and 1930s', '
Q: What three factors led to large numbers of Jews moving to France?
A: antisemitism, the Russian revolution, and the economic turmoil of the Great Depression', '
Q: By the 1930s, Paris was noted for which two things related to Jews?
A: a vibrant Yiddish culture, and many Jews were involved in diverse political movements']
The term Ashkenazi also refers to the nusach Ashkenaz (Hebrew, "liturgical tradition", or rite) used by Ashkenazi Jews in their Siddur (prayer book). A nusach is defined by a liturgical tradition's choice of prayers, order of prayers, text of prayers and melodies used in the singing of prayers. Two other major forms of nusach among Ashkenazic Jews are Nusach Sefard (not to be confused with the Sephardic ritual), which is the general Polish Hasidic nusach, and Nusach Ari, as used by Lubavitch Hasidim.

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Q: What is the Siddur?
A: prayer book', '
Q: The term Ashkenazi also refers to what?
A: the nusach Ashkenaz', '
Q: The nusach Ashkenaz refers to what in Hebrew?
A: "liturgical tradition", or rite', '
Q: Two other major forms of nusach among Ashkenazic Jews are what?
A: Nusach Sefard (not to be confused with the Sephardic ritual), which is the general Polish Hasidic nusach, and Nusach Ari', '
Q: Nusach Ari is used by whom?
A: Lubavitch Hasidim']
Efforts to identify the origins of Ashkenazi Jews through DNA analysis began in the 1990s. Currently, there are three types of genetic origin testing, autosomal DNA (atDNA), mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), and Y-chromosomal DNA (Y-DNA). Autosomal DNA is a mixture from an individual's entire ancestry, Y-DNA shows a male's lineage only along his strict-paternal line, mtDNA shows any person's lineage only along the strict-maternal line. Genome-wide association studies have also been employed to yield findings relevant to genetic origins.

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Q: How many types of genetic origin testing currently exist?
A: three types of genetic origin testing', '
Q: When did efforts begin to try and identify the origins of Ashkenazi Jews through DNA analysis?
A: the 1990s', "
Q: What does Y-DNA show?
A: a male's lineage only along his strict-paternal line", '
Q: What are the three types of origin testing?
A: autosomal DNA (atDNA), mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), and Y-chromosomal DNA (Y-DNA)', "
Q: Autosomal DNA is what?
A: a mixture from an individual's entire ancestry"]
In 2006, a study by Behar et al., based on what was at that time high-resolution analysis of haplogroup K (mtDNA), suggested that about 40% of the current Ashkenazi population is descended matrilineally from just four women, or "founder lineages", that were "likely from a Hebrew/Levantine mtDNA pool" originating in the Middle East in the 1st and 2nd centuries CE. Additionally, Behar et al. suggested that the rest of Ashkenazi mtDNA is originated from ~150 women, and that most of those were also likely of Middle Eastern origin. In reference specifically to Haplogroup K, they suggested that although it is common throughout western Eurasia, "the observed global pattern of distribution renders very unlikely the possibility that the four aforementioned founder lineages entered the Ashkenazi mtDNA pool via gene flow from a European host population".

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Q: A 2006 study by Behar et al, suggested that what percentage of the current Ashkenazi population was descended from "founder lineages"?
A: 40%', '
Q: A 2006 study by Behar et al, suggested that a large percentage of the current Ashkenazi population is descended matrilineally from how many women? 
A: from just four women', '
Q: The women that a large percentage of the current Ashkenazi population is descended from are also known as what?
A: founder lineages', '
Q: The founder lineages were likely from what type of mtDNA pool?
A: Hebrew/Levantine']
Speculation that the Ashkenazi arose from Khazar stock surfaced in the later 19th century and has met with mixed fortunes in the scholarly literature. In late 2012 Eran Elhaik, a research associate studying genetics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, argued for Khazar descent in his paper The Missing Link of Jewish European Ancestry: Contrasting the Rhineland and the Khazarian Hypotheses. A 2013 study of Ashkenazi mitochondrial DNA found no significant evidence of Khazar contribution to the Ashkenazi Jewish DNA, as would be predicted by the Khazar hypothesis.

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Q: When did the idea that the Ashkenazi may have come from Khazar stock come about?
A: in the later 19th century', '
Q: Did Eran Elhaik, from Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health argue for or against Khazar descent?
A: argued for Khazar descent', '
Q: What did a 2013 study of Ashkenazi mitochondrial DNA find in regards to the Khazar descent idea?
A: no significant evidence of Khazar contribution to the Ashkenazi Jewish DNA']
Sporadic epigraphic evidence in grave site excavations, particularly in Brigetio (Szőny), Aquincum (Óbuda), Intercisa (Dunaújváros), Triccinae (Sárvár), Savaria (Szombathely), Sopianae (Pécs), and Osijek in Croatia, attest to the presence of Jews after the 2nd and 3rd centuries where Roman garrisons were established, There was a sufficient number of Jews in Pannonia to form communities and build a synagogue. Jewish troops were among the Syrian soldiers transferred there, and replenished from the Middle East, after 175 C.E. Jews and especially Syrians came from Antioch, Tarsus and Cappadocia. Others came from Italy and the Hellenized parts of the Roman empire. The excavations suggest they first lived in isolated enclaves attached to Roman legion camps, and intermarried among other similar oriental families within the military orders of the region.Raphael Patai states that later Roman writers remarked that they differed little in either customs, manner of writing, or names from the people among whom they dwelt; and it was especially difficult to differentiate Jews from the Syrians. After Pannonia was ceded to the Huns in 433, the garrison populations were withdrawn to Italy, and only a few, enigmatic traces remain of a possible Jewish presence in the area some centuries later.

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Q: Grave site excavations near where Roman garrisons were established attest to the presence of Jews after what centuries?
A: the 2nd and 3rd centuries', '
Q: The large number of Jews in Pannonia formed communities and built what?
A: a synagogue', '
Q: In what year were the Roman garrison populations withdrawn to Italy?
A: 433']
With the onset of the Crusades in 1095, and the expulsions from England (1290), France (1394), and parts of Germany (15th century), Jewish migration pushed eastward into Poland (10th century), Lithuania (10th century), and Russia (12th century). Over this period of several hundred years, some have suggested, Jewish economic activity was focused on trade, business management, and financial services, due to several presumed factors: Christian European prohibitions restricting certain activities by Jews, preventing certain financial activities (such as "usurious" loans) between Christians, high rates of literacy, near universal male education, and ability of merchants to rely upon and trust family members living in different regions and countries.

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Q: What year marked the onset of the Crusades?
A: 1095', '
Q: As Jews were expelled from England, France, and parts of Germany they head into which three countries?
A: Poland (10th century), Lithuania (10th century), and Russia (12th century)', '
Q: What year were the expulsions from England?
A: 1290', '
Q: What year were the expulsions from France?
A: 1394', '
Q: After expulsions from England and France, Jewish migration headed in which direction?
A: Jewish migration pushed eastward']
In the Midrash compilation, Genesis Rabbah, Rabbi Berechiah mentions Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah as German tribes or as German lands. It may correspond to a Greek word that may have existed in the Greek dialect of the Palestinian Jews, or the text is corrupted from "Germanica." This view of Berechiah is based on the Talmud (Yoma 10a; Jerusalem Talmud Megillah 71b), where Gomer, the father of Ashkenaz, is translated by Germamia, which evidently stands for Germany, and which was suggested by the similarity of the sound.

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Q: What is the name of the Rabbi mentioned in relation to the Genesis Rabbah?
A: Rabbi Berechiah', '
Q: What are the three German tribes or German lands talked about by Rabbi Berechiah?
A: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah', "
Q: Rabbi Berechiah's view is based on what?
A: the Talmud", '
Q: What is the name of the Midrash compilation?
A: Genesis Rabbah']
In the generations after emigration from the west, Jewish communities in places like Poland, Russia, and Belarus enjoyed a comparatively stable socio-political environment. A thriving publishing industry and the printing of hundreds of biblical commentaries precipitated the development of the Hasidic movement as well as major Jewish academic centers. After two centuries of comparative tolerance in the new nations, massive westward emigration occurred in the 19th and 20th centuries in response to pogroms in the east and the economic opportunities offered in other parts of the world. Ashkenazi Jews have made up the majority of the American Jewish community since 1750.

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Q: After emigration from the west, did Jewish communities in places like Poland have a stable or unstable sociopolitical environment?
A: a comparatively stable socio-political environment', '
Q: What precipitated the development of the Hasidic movement?
A: A thriving publishing industry and the printing of hundreds of biblical commentaries', '
Q: Massive western emigration occurred around what time?
A: in the 19th and 20th centuries', '
Q: Ashkenazi Jews have made up the majority of the American Jewish community since when?
A: 1750']
Religious Ashkenazi Jews living in Israel are obliged to follow the authority of the chief Ashkenazi rabbi in halakhic matters. In this respect, a religiously Ashkenazi Jew is an Israeli who is more likely to support certain religious interests in Israel, including certain political parties. These political parties result from the fact that a portion of the Israeli electorate votes for Jewish religious parties; although the electoral map changes from one election to another, there are generally several small parties associated with the interests of religious Ashkenazi Jews. The role of religious parties, including small religious parties that play important roles as coalition members, results in turn from Israel's composition as a complex society in which competing social, economic, and religious interests stand for election to the Knesset, a unicameral legislature with 120 seats.

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Q: Religious Ashkenazi Jews living in Israel follow the authority of whom in certain matters?
A: the chief Ashkenazi rabbi', '
Q: What is the Knesset?
A: a unicameral legislature with 120 seats', '
Q: Religious Ashkenazi Jews look to the authority of the chief Ashkenazi rabbi in which matters?
A: halakhic matters']
New developments in Judaism often transcend differences in religious practice between Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews. In North American cities, social trends such as the chavurah movement, and the emergence of "post-denominational Judaism" often bring together younger Jews of diverse ethnic backgrounds. In recent years, there has been increased interest in Kabbalah, which many Ashkenazi Jews study outside of the Yeshiva framework. Another trend is the new popularity of ecstatic worship in the Jewish Renewal movement and the Carlebach style minyan, both of which are nominally of Ashkenazi origin.

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Q: What two things were mentioned as contributing to bringing younger Jews together in North American cities?
A: social trends such as the chavurah movement, and the emergence of "post-denominational Judaism"', '
Q: What do many Ashkenazi Jews study outside of the Yeshiva framework?
A: Kabbalah', '
Q: Which new trend has been associated with the Jewish Renewal movement?
A: ecstatic worship']
Several famous people have Ashkenazi as a surname, such as Vladimir Ashkenazy. However, most people with this surname hail from within Sephardic communities, particularly from the Syrian Jewish community. The Sephardic carriers of the surname would have some Ashkenazi ancestors since the surname was adopted by families who were initially of Ashkenazic origins who moved to Sephardi countries and joined those communities. Ashkenazi would be formally adopted as the family surname having started off as a nickname imposed by their adopted communities. Some have shortened the name to Ash.

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Q: Most people with the surname Ashkenazi, hail from which particular community?
A: Syrian Jewish community', '
Q: Some people with the surname shorten it to what?
A: Ash', '
Q: What famous person is mentioned as having the surname Ashkenazi?
A: Vladimir Ashkenazy']
A study of haplotypes of the Y-chromosome, published in 2000, addressed the paternal origins of Ashkenazi Jews. Hammer et al. found that the Y-chromosome of Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews contained mutations that are also common among Middle Eastern peoples, but uncommon in the general European population. This suggested that the male ancestors of the Ashkenazi Jews could be traced mostly to the Middle East. The proportion of male genetic admixture in Ashkenazi Jews amounts to less than 0.5% per generation over an estimated 80 generations, with "relatively minor contribution of European Y chromosomes to the Ashkenazim," and a total admixture estimate "very similar to Motulsky's average estimate of 12.5%." This supported the finding that "Diaspora Jews from Europe, Northwest Africa, and the Near East resemble each other more closely than they resemble their non-Jewish neighbors." "Past research found that 50–80 percent of DNA from the Ashkenazi Y chromosome, which is used to trace the male lineage, originated in the Near East," Richards said.

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Q: It was found that the Y-chromosome of Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews contained mutations that are also common with what other people?
A: Middle Eastern peoples', '
Q: It was found that the Y-chromosome of Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews contained mutations that are uncommon with what other people?
A: uncommon in the general European population', '
Q: The findings related to the Y-chromosomes suggest that males ancestors of Ashkenazi Jews could be traced mostly to where?
A: the Middle East']