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Definition:
The name Ashkenazi (which originally meant "German") is used to refer to any Jews who
descend from whose who lived in northern Europe and whose customs generally derive
from Germanic Judaism. The label Ashkenazi is usually used as a distinction from
Sephardic Jews because the two groups developed two distinct cultures.
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