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Ashkenazic Jews\u2019 mysterious origins unravelled by scientists thanks to ancient DNA<\/h1>\n

Eran Elhaik
\nTHE CONSERVATION<\/p>\n

Where do the Jewish people come from? This is a question that anthopologists, historians and theologists have studied for millennia.<\/p>\n

According to mythology, the Judaeans descended from three patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, who are buried in the Cave of the Patriarchs (Cave of Machpelah<\/a>) in Hebron \u2013 a Palestinian city and\u00a0world heritage site<\/a>\u00a0located in the southern West Bank, 19 miles south of Jerusalem.<\/p>\n

Buried alongside them are said to be Adam and Eve and the four Matriarchs \u2013 Sara, Rebecca and Leah. The cave has never been excavated, but on top of it is a relatively modern building (mid first-century), which Herod the Great built \u2013 likely to honour his ancestors.<\/p>\n

For a more scientific take on the Jewish origin debate, recent DNA analysis of Ashkenazic Jews \u2013 a Jewish ethnic group \u2013 revealed that their maternal line is\u00a0European<\/a>. It has also been found that their DNA\u00a0only has 3% ancient ancestry<\/a>\u00a0which links them with the Eastern Mediterranean (also known as the Middle East) \u2013 namely Israel, Lebanon, parts of Syria, and western Jordan. This is the part of the world Jewish people are said to have originally come from \u2013 according to the Old Testament. But 3% is a minuscule amount, and similar to what modern Europeans as a whole share with Neanderthals. So given that the genetic ancestry link is so low, Ashkenazic Jews\u2019 most recent ancestors must be from elsewhere.<\/p>\n

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To understand why this is the case, we need to go back in time, to look at where these other ancestors came from. It starts in Persia (modern-day Iran) during the sixth century. This is where\u00a0most of the world\u2019s Jews were living<\/a>\u00a0at this time.<\/p>\n

The tolerance of the Persians encouraged the Jews to adopt Persian names, words, traditions, and religious practices, and climb up the social ladder\u00a0gaining a monopoly on trade<\/a>. They also\u00a0converted other people<\/a>\u00a0who were living along the Black Sea, to their Jewish faith. This helped to\u00a0expand their global network<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Among these converts were the Alans (Iranian nomadic pastoral people), Greeks, and Slavs who resided along the southern shores of the Black Sea. Upon conversion, they\u00a0translated the Old Testament into Greek<\/a>, built synagogues, and continued expanding the Jewish trade network.<\/p>\n

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DNA of Yiddish speakers could have originated from four ancient villages in northwest Turkey.<\/span>\u00a0Author provided<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

These Jews adopted the name Ashkenaz, and the DNA of Ashkenazic Jews can be traced to \u201cAncient Ashkenaz<\/a>\u201d \u2013 an intersection of trade routes in eastern Turkey.<\/p>\n

The rise of the Ashina<\/h2>\n

We now know that at the time these Jews adopted the name Ashkenaz, they also acquired unique\u00a0Asian mutations<\/a>\u00a0on their Y chromosome. This is where another important group of people in our story come into play \u2013 and they are called the Gok-Turks.<\/p>\n

During the\u00a0sixth century<\/a>, these nomadic people were ruled by a Siberian Turkic tribe called the Ashina. They were forced by the\u00a0Chinese Tang Empire<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 who were in power in China at the time \u2013 to migrate westwards toward the Black Sea.<\/p>\n

Thanks to their organisational and military skills, the Ashina united many tribes in this area \u2013 and a new empire called the \u201cKhazar Khaganate\u201d was born. Offering freedom of worship and taxing trade, these people quickly rose to power.<\/p>\n

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Orthodox Jews pray at the ancient cemetery of Safed, Israel.<\/span>\u00a0Shutterstock<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Asian group of these DNA mutations<\/a>, found in Ashkenazic Jews, likely originated from\u00a0the Ashina<\/a>\u00a0elite and other Khazar clans, who converted from Shamanism to Judaism. This means that the Ashina and core Khazar clans were absorbed by the Ashkenazic Jews.<\/p>\n

It was also around this time that the Jewish elite adopted many Slavic customs. And based on my previous research, I would suggest that\u00a0Yiddish was developed as a secret language<\/a>\u00a0to assist in trade.<\/p>\n

The next chapter<\/h2>\n

What happened next was that the Jewish empire began to collapse. By the tenth century, the Jews on the Black Sea migrated to Ukraine and Italy. Yiddish became the lingua franca of these Ashkenazic Jews and absorbed\u00a0German words while maintaining the Slavic grammar<\/a>. And as global trade moved to the hands of the Italians, Dutch and English, the Jews were pushed aside.<\/p>\n

What this all shows is that by using modern\u00a0genetic<\/a>\u00a0technology<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 that enables scientists to\u00a0track the past<\/a>\u00a0of modern-day people \u2013 a new appreciation for Jewish ancestry can be discovered.<\/p>\n

It has meant a greater understanding of the journeys these people took to arrive in Europe. It has also allowed for increased knowledge as to the significant role the Ashina and the Khazar clans \u2013 from which some of the real Jewish patriarchs actually came from \u2013 played.<\/p>\n

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