Ashkenazic Jews are European Jews, who are said to be descended from Ashkenaz, great grandson of Noah. ( Ashkenazi was the son of Gomer, who was the son of Japeth, who was the son of Noah).
The Bible does not say when Ashkenaz died, but Barry Setterfield has dated the death of Ashkenaz's cousin Shelah (another great-grandson of Noah) at 1769BC (when he was 403 years old) and assuming the great-grandsons lived to approximately the same ages, Ashkenaz would probably have lived to be about 400 years old also. He has dated the birth of Shelah's eighth-generation descendant, Jacob (later re-named Israel), at 1787BC and the date of his marriage at 1710BC, by which time Ashkenaz would have probably died.
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Ashkenaz and Shelah were from different branches of the family (Ashkenaz's grandfather was Gomer, but Shelah's was Shem) so Ashkenaz was unrelated to the tribes of Israel. Besides, the twelve sons of Israel after whom the tribes are named hadn't even been born yet.
No. There is no Jewish tradition (Ashkenazic, Sephardic, Mizrahi, Beta Israel (Ethiopia), Sabra (Israeli), etc.) that has any form of Christmas celebration.
There are a lot of myths about Jews, particularly, the belief that the Jews of Europe, the Ashkenazic Jews, originated in the middle east and migrated to Russia and Europe. However, this does not appear to be historically accurate. Rather, a Russian tribe called the Kazars converted to Judaism, and gave rise to the Ashkenazic Jews. The original Sephardic Jews of the middle east were never actually exiled (unless you want to count the Babylonian Captivity, a much earlier historical event when Jews were forcibly relocated by the Babylonian Empire).
Meir Auerbach (1860-1871)
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The Jews of Europe are the Ashkenazim (named after the city of Ashkenaz, Poland). Also known as Ashkenazic Jews.
The Jews are also known as the sons of Israel (בני ישראל, B'nei Yisrael in Hebrew). The tribe of Levi was responsible for the Tabernacle (Numbers ch.3 and ch.8).
Ashkenazi Jews aren't more strict than Sephardi Jews, this question is based on a false assumption.
Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog (1948-1959)
First don't make the mistake of assuming all Israel are Jews.... Which many people do. There are 12 tribes of Israel and Judah (Jews) is but one tribe. Further the tribe of Judah was not the tribe of the priests, it was the tribe of the kings of Judah. The people of the tribe of Judah who resided in Jerusalem with the tribe of Benjamin spoke Hebrew, until the time of Alexander the Great and later his general Ptolemy who forced the Greek language upon the people under their rule. This is why one observes the text shift from Hebrew to Greek between the old and New testaments.
The Igbos are African Jews. They are part from the missing tribe of Israel; from the tribe of Gad-one of the twelve tribes of Israel.... Igbo Kwenu! If you are an Igbo, make sure you maintain Omenana
The only tribe of Israel that retains some form of identity is the Tribe of Levi, of which the Cohens are a part. This is the tribe from which the Priests and their assistants came, and members of that group still have ceremonial functions in Jewish religious services. Therefore, for most modern Jews, if they cannot say they are Cohanim or Levites, they are unable to say what tribe they descend from.
Jesus was a Jew who was born before the Jews were exiled to Europe - Eastern Europe "creating" Ashkenazi Jews and Wester Europe (Spain) "creating" Sefardi Jews.