AW: [Cz-L] Jewish roots in Czernowitz

Dear Mimi,

I also remember stories from people who, for instance,
claimed that their read hair show their Chazar ancestry,
as pure Jewish ancestors must have had brown or black hair.

I don't know where from these people had the idea that the Chazars,
as a Turkish people originated in the Altai region, have had read hair.
I would rather expect them looking a little bit like the modern Uzbek or
other Central Asian turkish people.

If somebody is interested in modern research about Ashkenazim and six other
Jewish groups from Europe and Middle East - there is a scientific publication:
 http://napobo3.lk.net/dna/Abrahams_children_in_the_genome_era_2010_in-press_AJHG.pdf
 

Alex

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> Von: Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
> An: W.A. Terner <w.a.t-r_at_athenaeum.se>; "Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu"
><Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, den 15. September 2010, 4:26:17 Uhr
> Betreff: Re: [Cz-L] Jewish roots in Czernowitz
>
> Dear Wolf,
>
> I very much agree with you about the attitude veteran Czernowitzers had to
> new comers. We called them "Ost-Juden" and did not approve of them.
> Yet I very much doubt that there were any Jews living in Czernowitz before
> WW2, who's ancestors had lived there before 1778. Had there been any
> Czernowitzers with this much "Yiches", in typical Czernowitz fashion, they
> would have let everyone know about it.
>
> You write that some of the family names in Galizia and Bukovina are of
> Chazar origin. Would you please quote some of them, so we could check
> whether in the 1998 address book, there are any people with such names.
> My father as a joke always claimed that he was a descendant of the Chazars.
> He based this claim on his high cheekbones and great liking for horses, not
> on any known ancestors. To me he always looked perfectly Jewish.
>
> Gmar Chatimah Tova,
>
> Mimi

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