Ashkenaz

Ashkenaz

Ashkenaz (Hebrew: אַשְׁכְּנָז‎ ʾAškənāz) in the Hebrew Bible is one of the descendants of Noah. Ashkenaz is the first son of Gomer, and a Japhetic patriarch in the Table of Nations. In rabbinic literature, the descendants of Ashkenaz were first associated with the Scythian cultures, then later with the Slavic territories, and, from the 11th century onwards, with Germany and northern Europe, or the Indo-European people, in a manner similar to Tzarfat or Sefarad. His name is related to the Assyrian Aškūza (Aškuzai, Iškuzai), the Scythians who expelled the Gimirri (Gimirrāi) from the Armenian highland of the Upper Euphrates area. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ashkenaz has received more than 673,881 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Ashkenaz is the 1,394th most popular religious figure (down from 1,341st in 2019).