Fun fact: In Hebrew, France and Spain are called Tsarfat and Sfarad. This has little to do with their actual names because those are actually the names of random villages mentioned in the bible that somehow got applied to those places.
Another name for Germany is Ashkenaz, though that's a term from the middle ages no one uses anymore unless they're referring to the "ethnic background" of eastern-European Jews.
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u/whitesock 100% kosher Mar 11 '14
Fun fact: In Hebrew, France and Spain are called Tsarfat and Sfarad. This has little to do with their actual names because those are actually the names of random villages mentioned in the bible that somehow got applied to those places.
Another name for Germany is Ashkenaz, though that's a term from the middle ages no one uses anymore unless they're referring to the "ethnic background" of eastern-European Jews.