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At least you didn’t say antisemitic. Assuming there’s anything “Semitic” about Eastern Europeans Jews (as per the above linked research paper). BTW talking of
by onyva 7y ago
At least you didn’t say antisemitic. Assuming there’s anything “Semitic” about Eastern Europeans Jews (as per the above linked research paper).
BTW talking of which, it’s always fun to go back and read Arthur Ruppin's ideas about race.
That’s an ashkenazi eugenist whom couple of institutes in Israel are named after, including the Ruppin academic center.
- azernik 7y agoThose Eastern European Jews are also the secular Israeli mainstream, and also most of American Jews. They are, as the paper says, mixed European and Middle Eastern. That paper's results had the mixture for Ashkenazim as approximately 80/20, while others have it at 50/50 or 40/60, with varying low levels of admixture from the Caucasus.