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Question:I've heard this before but I'm wondering if its really true: Are the Jews who remained in the Middle East and maintained their own communities in the Middle East more genetically closer to the original ancient Israelites than the Ashkenazi Jews who moved up to Europe? Are the Jews who remained in the Middle East since the beginning of the Diaspora more genetically Semitic and more closely related to the ancient Hebrews/Israelites? Wasn't the amount of assimilation and mixing with non-Jews less frequent in the Middle East than it was in Europe over the centuries?

(I know both Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews are of the Jewish faith regardless of where they come from but I'm just wondering about the genetics)

My dad's family are Jews who originally came from Iraq and my mother's family are Jews who came from Germany. My mother looks like she can pass for a non-Jewish German easily, but my father looks very Semitic and more "typically" Jewish looking.


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I've heard this before but I'm wondering if its really true: Are the Jews who remained in the Middle East and maintained their own communities in the Middle East more genetically closer to the original ancient Israelites than the Ashkenazi Jews who moved up to Europe? Are the Jews who remained in the Middle East since the beginning of the Diaspora more genetically Semitic and more closely related to the ancient Hebrews/Israelites? Wasn't the amount of assimilation and mixing with non-Jews less frequent in the Middle East than it was in Europe over the centuries?

(I know both Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews are of the Jewish faith regardless of where they come from but I'm just wondering about the genetics)

My dad's family are Jews who originally came from Iraq and my mother's family are Jews who came from Germany. My mother looks like she can pass for a non-Jewish German easily, but my father looks very Semitic and more "typically" Jewish looking.

I dont believe that those who remained "geographicly" in Juda r more racially pure but I am aware of new genetic tests being done to link Jews and non. Even before the diaspora the men of Judah took forgen wives and bore children with them according to the Torrah and Old Test. Interesting question- Ive thought the same thing in the past!

Supposes,you could easily finds any books which dated back to the Early/Later da of Jacobs and Essau, which both were Twin and both were sons of Issac the prophet that of the Son of Abraham, then after both of them married,that is after Jacob married to Rahel and LEa, and Essu married to a 'woman' (?). Now, once and for all, where and how would you to find the Genetics and or Generics book on them, since you know the Book on Abraham decendent were to extent ever since unto the very geetic code that of Haggar and Ishmaeel unto the Arabs. So, Pardon me, mememoseille I don't think I could held you for tooo long, so long,
Bon Voyage
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'Night-'Night
Iraqiyah were gone into their 'Pit-Hall' at the holy shrines on the Hom,I've been told. As,for the Iranian they are about to go to Qom, so where were u gone to should you perishes or even vanishes in such a place other than Yerusalem, Betsheba, Mecca or Medina, darling ?

No.

Tests designed to tell what percentage Native American, European, East Asian, and African a person is are controversial. Their validity has not been independently confirmed and the results are often disputed. Hidden "outsider liasons" occurred frequently in all geographic regions, making it impossible for one DNA line to remain "pure" over time.

Read the Wiki sections on "Biogeographical ancestry," "Cohanim ancestry, and "European testing."