Comments on: Ashkenazi

By: Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog » Funny, you don’t look Jewish

Mon, 20 Jun 2005 02:08:39 +0000

[...] Ashkenazi community, and this is reflected in language and surnames. Personally I still prefer the theory that Ashkenazis are primarily Central Asian in origin…
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By: xtort

xtort — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Absolutely fascinating subject this business of the Khazars–in fact this is a “black hole” of history, in that no-one really knows what happened to these people, who seem to have vanished around the 13th century. The DNA stuff seems to perhaps vindicate Arthur Koestler, who took quite a bit of heat for his fabulous, “The Thirteenth Tribe”, which dealt with this.

By: Dan Goodman

Dan Goodman — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I once spoke with a Latvian who told me that after World War One, one branch of his family decided they were German and emigrated to Germany. He had a distinctly Oriental appearance.

As do some of my Jewish relatives on my mother’s side of the family. Others on both sides of my family look as if they could be Finnish or Slavic.