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ASHKENAZ

Gomer’s son and Noah’s great-grandson in Japheth’s line (Gn 10:1-3; 1 Chr 1:6). Mention of the kingdom of Ashkenaz along with Ararat and Minni (Jer 51:27) suggests that he was the ancestor of the Scythians, a people who resided in the Ararat region in Jeremiah’s time. An active, warlike people, the Scythians contributed to the unrest of the Assyrian Empire and to its eventual collapse. The plural term “Ashkenazim” is now used for the Jews who settled in middle and eastern Europe after the Dispersion, in contrast with the Sephardim, those who settled in the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal).