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Germany / Israel / Palestine: A group of German Ashkenazi Jewish men, Jerusalem, 1876

Germany / Israel / Palestine: A group of German Ashkenazi Jewish men, Jerusalem, 1876

Ashkenazi Jews, also known as Ashkenazic Jews or simply Ashkenazim ('The Jews of Germany'), are a Jewish ethnic division who coalesced as a distinct community of Jews in the Holy Roman Empire around the end of the 1st millennium.

The traditional language of Ashkenazi Jews consisted of various dialects of Yiddish.

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