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Jewish diaspora of Central and Eastern Europe
Genetic, historical and scholarly sources repeated in current reporting show Ashkenazi Jews are a recognized Jewish ethnoreligious group with clear links to ancient Levantine/Jewish populations and a ...
Claims that “Ashkenazis are fake Jews” rest on a long-discredited set of theories (Khazar-origin and related conspiracies) and on selective readings of genetic studies; mainstream genetic, historical ...
Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews share the core beliefs and rituals of Judaism but differ in liturgy, pronunciation, holiday customs, cuisine and some halakhic rulings — for example, many Sephardim permit...
Mizrahi Jews in Israel trace origins to Middle Eastern and North African communities and , with genetics studies showing stronger regional continuity and less European admixture than Ashkenazim . Thes...
Genetic studies show contemporary Jewish communities form distinct but overlapping genetic clusters with substantial shared Middle Eastern ancestry alongside local admixture and population bottlenecks...
Claims that “Khazarians were bad people” rest almost entirely on modern conspiracy narratives and selective readings of medieval sources; mainstream historians describe the Khazars as a Turkic, mercan...
Multiple genetic studies find that many Jewish men—both Ashkenazi and Sephardi—carry Y‑chromosome haplogroups common in the Near East (notably J1/J2) while Ashkenazim show elevated levels of some Euro...
Genetic studies show Israeli Jewish populations are neither genetically uniform nor unrelated to neighboring Levantine groups: major analyses find shared Middle Eastern ancestry across Ashkenazi, Seph...
show substantial genetic continuity with and : genome-wide studies model large fractions of contemporary Levantine ancestry as deriving from Bronze‑Age “Canaanite”–like and Iron‑Age local groups, with...
Genetic, archaeological, and historical analyses converge on a picture in which Ashkenazi Jews formed through multiple that combined Middle Eastern origins with substantial Southern European and later...
Ashkenazi Jewish communities emerged in medieval Western Europe—first recorded in the Rhineland and northern France around the 10th century—and expanded eastward into Poland and other Slavic lands ove...
Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews display : Ashkenazi communities expanded mainly across Central and Eastern Europe from medieval Rhineland origins before large modern emigrations to the Americas in the 19...
Multiple genome-wide studies and reviews find no substantive evidence that Ashkenazi Jews derive a major portion of their ancestry from Khazar or other North‑Caucasus populations; the largest integrat...
to date does not provide robust support for the claim that are primarily descended from Khazar converts; most genome‑wide and uniparental studies place Ashkenazi ancestry as a mix of (ern) and an cont...
studies show that most communities worldwide share measurable genetic threads traceable to the ancient Near East while also carrying region-specific admixture from the non‑Jewish populations among who...
refers to a simple, longstanding comfort-food combination in which salt‑cured beef (corned beef) is chopped or diced and fried with potatoes and onions as “hash,” a word from the French hacher, to cho...
Major genetic work on Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry falls into three broad classes—genome‑wide autosomal surveys, uniparental (mitochondrial and Y‑chromosome) analyses, and ancient DNA—from which a consis...
Tensions between Ashkenazi and Sephardi/Mizrahi Jews in Israel and the Jewish diaspora are long-standing, rooted in early Zionist institutional dominance by Ashkenazim and subsequent Sephardi/Mizrahi ...
Some Eastern European Jewish groups and popular writers have claimed descent from the medieval Khazar state; the claim is most commonly applied to Ashkenazi Jews and is associated with the “Khazar hyp...
Consumer DNA companies distinguish Ashkenazi, Sephardi and Mizrahi Jewish ancestry mainly by comparing a tester’s autosomal, Y-chromosome or mitochondrial markers to reference panels drawn from sample...