Ashkenazi Jews, also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim (, Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation: , singular: , Modern Hebrew: , ; also ', "The Jews of Ashkenaz"), are an ethnoreligious group who trace their origins to the indigenous Israelite tribes of Canaan in the Middle East, and probably began settling along the Rhine in Germany, from Alsace in the south to the Rhineland in the north, during the early Middle Ages.

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