Ashkenazi Family History

Jewish: nickname applied by Jews in Slavic countries for a Jew from Germany; it was also used to denote a Yiddish-speaking Jew who had settled in an area where non-Ashkenazic Jews were in the majority.

Ashkenaz is a Biblical placename (Genesis 10:3 Jeremiah 5 27) etymologically related to Greek Skythia ‘Scythia’.

However, since the 9th century AD, if not earlier, it has been applied to Germany.