[Pharmboy]

They say that Ashkenazi Jews are about half Euro and half Middle Eastern in origin. Another interesting point that I remember from another article a few years ago is that Jewish redheads and Celtic redheads have red hair based on different genetic mutations.

[Pharmboy]

Some interesting genetic stuff in here on non-Jewish Euros also.

[Pollster1]

I was under the impression that all Jews (and all people) descended from fewer people than that.

[StoneWall Brigade]

Interesting

[jjotto]

Several redheads mentioned in Jewish bloodlines, such as Esau and King David.

[humblegunner]

And the cat?
What religion is the cat?

[EveningStar]

FYI ping

[jjotto]

The Ashkenaz bottleneck was “between 600 and 800 years ago,” but the Ashekenaz - Sefardi split goes back a few hundred years before that, as evidenced by Rabbenu Gershom, whose prohibition of polygamy was binding on Ashkenazim but not Sefardim.

Most likely a larger Jewish population in Europe was all but wiped out at the bottleneck, possibly fallout from the Crusades.

[miss marmelstein]

And the colors are actually very different.

My mother’s side of the family have Ashkenazi markers. And some redheads, too, but they appeared to be very Celtic.

[Smittie]

The first Jew was born to Abraham and Sarah and was named Isaac. Now where’s my grant money? How much money was spent on this research?

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Ashkenazi Jews descend from 350 people

If they dug further, I won’t be surprised to find that the number will go down to 8, and eventually 2.

[Clintonfatigued]

Ping

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Wow, 350 people. Not long ago we had several threads like this.

'Four Mothers' For Europe's Jews - Free Republic

Everyone from 350 people (radical muslims would disagree on that characterization), but half of them from four women. After the Ashkenazi ban on polygamy. Everyone must have been very busy.

[Insigne123]

Alibabba’s Jack Ma is also a redhead...

...nah, just kidding, his head was the model for the Sponge Bob Squarepants character

[1010RD]

Illustrative photo of Ashkenazi Jews

So they're red headed hippies?

[jimwatx]

They lived in the medieval era, about 600 to 800 years ago, according to the analysis – and numbered just 350 or so people.

Jewish persecution during "the Crusades" was said to have begun around 1096 in and about the Rhineland, were these not Ashkenazis then or what am I missing?

[bert]

so, which were the china red heads

celt? jew?

[MoochPooch]

As an Ashkenazi, I’m a genetic time bomb. My mother died of breast cancer, so I worry about myself (so far, so good). Nowadays lots of us go for genetic screening before marriage.

[ek_hornbeck]

They say that Ashkenazi Jews are about half Euro and half Middle Eastern in origin.

Y chromosomes of Ashkenazi Jews (only paternally inherited) are very similar to those of Arabs (especially Palestinians/Druze), while their mitochondrial DNA (maternally inherited) clusters with southern Europeans. One explanation for this is male Jewish merchants in Europe taking non-Jewish wives who then converted to Judaism.

It would certainly explain why some Jews are very European-looking while others look like Arabs.