State AG presses 23andMe for action after hack that targeted Ashkenazi Jewish, Chinese ancestry – The Hill
admin | November 2, 2023
State AG presses 23andMe for action after hack that targeted Ashkenazi Jewish, Chinese ancestry The Hill
Ashkenazi Jews in Israel – Wikipedia
admin | October 22, 2023
In Israel, the term Ashkenazi is now used in a manner unrelated to its original meaning, often applied to all Jews who settled in Europe[citation needed] and sometimes including those whose ethnic background is actually Sephardic. Jews of any non-Ashkenazi background, including Mizrahi, Yemenite, Kurdish and others who have no connection with the Iberian Peninsula, have similarly come to be lumped together as Sephardic. Jews of mixed background are increasingly common, partly because of intermarriage between Ashkenazi and Sephardi/Mizrahi, and partly because many do not see such historic markers as relevant to their life experiences as Jews.[4] The Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel is an honored leadership role given to a respected Ashkenazi rabbi.
The Origins of Ashkenaz, Ashkenazic Jews, and Yiddish
admin | September 18, 2023
Background The geographical origin of the Biblical Ashkenaz, Ashkenazic Jews (AJs), and Yiddish, are among the longest standing questions in history, genetics, and linguistics. Uncertainties concerning the meaning of Ashkenaz arose in the Eleventh century when the term shifted from a designation of the Iranian Scythians to become that of Slavs and Germans and finally of German (Ashkenazic) Jews in the Eleventh to Thirteenth centuries (Wexler, 1993). The first known discussion of the origin of German Jews and Yiddish surfaced in the writings of the Hebrew grammarian Elia Baxur in the first half of the Sixteenth century (Wexler, 1993)
Medical genetics of Jews – Wikipedia
admin | March 20, 2023
The medical genetics of Jews have been studied to identify and prevent some rare genetic diseases that, while still rare, are more common than average among people of Jewish descent. There are several autosomal recessive genetic disorders that are more common than average in ethnically Jewish populations, particularly Ashkenazi Jews, because of relatively recent population bottlenecks and because of consanguineous marriage (marriage of second cousins or closer).[1] These two phenomena reduce genetic diversity and raise the chance that two parents will carry a mutation in the same gene and pass on both mutations to a child. The genetics of Ashkenazi Jews have been particularly well studied, because the phenomenon affects them the most
Ashkenazi Jews Must Stop Identifying As White/European
admin | February 27, 2023
In an ideal world, race, skin color, and ethnic origin would have no relevance. But that is not the world we live in. Racism is and remains alive and well throughout the globe.
What does it mean to be genetically Jewish? – the Guardian
admin | February 16, 2023
When my parents sent their saliva away to a genetic testing company late last year and were informed via email a few weeks later that they are both 100% Ashkenazi Jewish, it struck me as slightly odd. Most people I know who have done DNA tests received ancestry results that correspond to geographical areas Chinese, British, West African. Jewish, by comparison, is typically parsed as a religious or cultural identity
Ashkenazi Jews Are Not Khazars. Heres The Proof. – The Forward
admin | December 31, 2022
Image by Nikki Casey By Alexander BeiderSeptember 25, 2017 In 2010 I was contacted by the chief editor of a volume called Khazars: Myth and History, put together by the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Bones yielding insights about Ashkenazi DNA in a German town built atop …
admin | December 25, 2022
The city of Erfurt in central Germany is home to an impeccably restored medieval synagogue made possible because local Jews had been expelled long before the Nazis began their campaign to destroy Jewish sites. Now, Erfurts long-hidden Jewish past is again offering new insights this time about the genetic history of Ashkenazi Jews
9. Race, ethnicity, heritage and immigration among U.S. Jews
admin | December 23, 2022
The majority of U.S. Jews identify as White
Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry – Wikipedia
admin | December 20, 2022
Largely abandoned theory about Jewish descent The Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry, often called the Khazar myth by its critics,[1]:369[2]:VIII[3] is a largely abandoned historical hypothesis. The hypothesis postulated that Ashkenazi Jews were primarily, or to a large extent, descended from Khazars, a multi-ethnic conglomerate of mostly Turkic peoples who formed a semi-nomadic khanate in and around the northern and central Caucasus and the PonticCaspian steppe. The hypothesis also postulated that after collapse of the Khazar empire, the Khazars fled to Eastern Europe and made up a large part of the Jews there.[4] The hypothesis draws on some medieval sources such as the Khazar Correspondence, according to which at some point in the 8th9th centuries, a small number of Khazars were said by Judah Halevi and Abraham ibn Daud to have converted to Rabbinic Judaism.[5] The scope of the conversion within the Khazar Khanate remains uncertain, but the evidence used to tie the Ashkenazi communities to the Khazars is meager and subject to conflicting interpretations.[6][7][8][9] Genetic studies on Jews have found no substantive evidence of a Khazar origin among Ashkenazi Jews.
