Ashkenazi (surname)

Ashkenazi (surname)

Ashkenazi is a surname, and may refer to:

*Bezalel Ashkenazi, rabbi and Talmud scholar of the 16th century
*Eliezer ben Elijah Ashkenazi, rabbi, Talmudist, and physician
*Gabi Ashkenazi, Chief of the Israel Defense Forces General Staff
*Jacob ben Isaac Ashkenazi, rabbi and author of the "Tseno Ureno"
*Israel Sarug Ashkenazi, pupil of Isaac Luria
*Lior Ashkenazi, Israeli actor
*Malkiel Ashkenazi, Sephardic rabbi in Hebron
*Meir Ashkenazi, envoy of the Khan of Crimea
*Mordecai ben Hillel Ashkenazi, German rabbi and legal authority
*Moses Ashkenazi, also known as Johann Peter Spaeth, a German convert to Judaism
*Avraham Ashkenazi, Chacham Bashi of Jerusalem
*Motti Ashkenazi, Israeli reserve captain
*Tzvi Ashkenazi, rabbi of Amsterdam
*Vladimir Ashkenazy, Russian conductor and pianist
*Yitzhak Ashkenazi, also called Isaac Luria, rabbi and mystic, founder of an important branch of Kabbalah


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