La génétique éclaire le débat sur l'origine des Juifs d'Europe
Les Juifs d'Europe trouvent leur origine dans un mélange d'ascendances, dont de nombreuses proviennent de tribus du Caucase qui se sont converties au judaïsme, selon une étude de génomes publiée jeudi.
Cette enquête, selon son auteur, devrait régler un débat de plus de deux siècles.
Les juifs d'origine européenne, les Ashkénazes, représentent environ 90% des plus de 13 millions de juifs dans le monde aujourd'hui.
Selon l'hypothèse dite «rhénane», les Ashkénazes descendent des juifs qui ont fui la Palestine après la conquête musulmane en après J.C.
Toujours selon cette hypothèse, ils se sont installés dans le sud de l'Europe, puis, à la fin du Moyen-Age, environ d'entre eux se sont déplacés de la Rhénanie, en Allemagne, vers l'Europe de l'Est.
Certains estiment cependant cette hypothèse invraisemblable, car le scénario est impossible en termes démographiques.
Cela supposerait un bond de la population des juifs d'Europe orientale de 50 individus au 15e siècle à environ huit millions au début du 20e siècle.
Le taux de natalité aurait été ainsi 10 fois supérieur à celui de la population locale non-ju
Eran Elhaik: ''I want to show how our DNA travelled over time until ending up in our cells''
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The geneticist from the University of Sheffield on the first and only test allowing to compare a modern-day person's DNA to the remains of ancient people who lived thousands of years ago
The interview of geneticist from the University of Sheffield Eran Elhaik about the Turkic origins of Ashkenazi Jews, which was published in Realnoe Vremya, became a topic for heated discussions in the mass media. This year the scientist is presenting a new unique project allowing anyone to learn about their ancestors who lived thousands of years ago. In a new interview with Realnoe Vremya, Doctor Elhaik tells us about studying ancient people's DNA, popular today DNA tests to detect diseases and expresses his opinion about if genius is inherited.
''We had people with detailed genealogies who said that the test confirmed their results''
Dr Elhaik, youclaimedattheverybeginning of our conversationno such tests existed. What’s the novelty? Could you tell about the project?
Ever since the first human population genetics studies in the mid-’60s, geneticists have b
[ Editor&#;s note: VT has known Israeli geneticist Eran Elhaik since , when we spotted the Jewish genome work he was doing at Johns Hopkins. We noted right away that he was another of the many Jewish academics who does not let ideology and politics influence his scientific research, which is always a breath of fresh air in the geopolitical sewer that VT has to swim in every day.
The work was controversial but solid, and he was able to defend it from the shills that attempted to discredit it.
In short, his work showed that Ashkenazi Jews have about as much &#;people of the land&#; DNA as Europeans have Neanderthal DNA. But Europeans have never referred to themselves as ancient Neanderthals or laid claim to Africa as the &#;ancient homeland&#; before conditions drove them into exile.
Here is my first article I wrote on his work, New Genome Study Destroys Zionist Claims to Palestine, published in the Press TV Viewpoints commentary section in the heydays when VT writers were constantly in the top five read articles each week, sometimes three out of five.
Eventually Viewpoints was shut down overnight without a word of explanation after a management change, despite t
Northeastern Turkey has not received much attention from scholars of Jewish history. It was not an area of dispute nor a region known to host famous schools such as the Jewish academies (yeshiva) in Babylon, where the Talmud was written. There was only fragmented historical records of Jewish settlement in this area. But genetics can now track DNA 1, years into the past, with village-level geographical accuracy. This accuracy was made possible with Geographical Population Structure (GPS) technology, which works in a similar way to the satnav geolocation system, and uses DNA instead of satellites to predict the most recent geographical origins of a DNA sample. To study the geographical origins of Yiddish, the native language of Ashkenazic Jews, my lab at the University of Sheffield has applied this GPS technology to the DNA of Ashkenazic Jews. Surprisingly, the results led us to northeastern Turkey, a finding that contradicts the orthodox view that the Ashkenazic Jewry emerged in Germany. Our continued research revealed that the ancestry of nearly all Ashkenazic Jews could be traced to four ancient villages with remarkable names: Iskenaz (or Eskenaz), Eskenez (or Eskens), Asha
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