Ashkephardi

• Ashkefardi (rare)

Blend of Ashkenazi +‎ Sephardi.

Ashkephardi

1. (Judaism, rare) Being both Ashkenazi and Sephardi simultaneously. [20th c.]

   Hypernyms: Ashkenazi, Ashkenazic, Sephardi, Sephardic

   • 1977, Sir Immanuel Jakobovits, The Timely and the Timeless: Jews, Judaism and Society in a Storm-tossed Decade‎^[1], Vallentine, Mitchell, →ISBN, page 238:

     […] if we Westerners were to try to adopt the Sephardi pronunciation, the result would probably be a pronunciation which was neither Ashkenazi nor Sephardi but, as some wit had suggested, “Ashkephardi”.

   • 2006, Susan Weingarten, edited by Richard Hosking, Authenticity in the Kitchen: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2005‎^[2], Prospect Books, →ISBN, page 424:

     Some families are giving up making haroset — a combined ‘Ashkephardi’ sort with both apples and dates is sold in jars in Israeli supermarkets.

   • 2012, Elana Benjamin, My Mother's Spice Cupboard: A Journey from Baghdad to Bombay to Bondi‎^[3], Port Campbell Press, →ISBN, page 273:

     My children, unlike me, my parents and grandparents, are not fully Sephardi. As their father is an Ashkenazi Jew, Zara and Asher are ‘Ashkephardi’: part Sephardi, part Ashkenazi.

   • 2019, Freiya Benson, editor, Trans Love: An Anthology of Transgender and Non-Binary Voices‎^[4], Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 288:

     Max Guttman (ze/zir/zirs) is a non-binary transgender and Ashkephardi Jewish educator, artist and writer.

Ashkephardi (plural Ashkephardim)

1. (Judaism, rare) Someone who is both Ashkenazi and Sephardi. [20th c.]

   Hypernyms: Ashkenazi, Sephardi

   • 1989, Jacob Rader Marcus, United States Jewry: 1776 To 1985‎^[5], volume I, Detroiy: Wayne State University Press, →ISBN, page 232:

     Most of those who considered themselves Sephardim, the old-timers, were actually not of Iberian stock, but were of Ashkenazic background, descendants of earlier Ashkenazic settlers who had accepted the Sephardic worship style as the American style. The Ashkephardim, as they may be called, were middle-class Jews with an ethos of their own; they looked down on the newcomers.

   • 2004, Ramona R. Freedman, Moving Home: My Path to Jewish Observance‎^[6], Gefen Publishing House Ltd, →ISBN, page 8:

     She always jokingly called me her “little Ashkephardi.”

   • 2008, Lisa Alcalay Klug, Cool Jew: The Ultimate Guide for Every Member of the Tribe‎^[7], Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 65:

     You, my friend, are a Sephardi, an Ashkenazi boundary crosser, the multicultural Ashkephardi, an ally to all … or just someone with a darn good vocabulary and possibly a belly to boot!