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The origin of Ashkenazi Jewry : the controversy unraveled /

Where do East European Jews - about 90 percent of Ashkenazi Jewry - descend from? This book conveys new insights into a century-old controversy. Jits van Straten argues that there is no evidence for the most common assumption that German Jews fled en masse to Eastern Europe to constitute East Europe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Straten, Jits van
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Walter de Gruyter, ©2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The controversy: Germany or Khazaria
  • The Khazars
  • The development of Ashkenazi Jewry by region: France, Germany, Bohemia, Moravia Silesia, and Hungary
  • The development of Ashkenazi Jewry by region: Poland, Lithuania, and Russia from 1500 to 1900: the Numerical increase
  • Yiddish
  • Genetic research (and Anthropology)
  • The revised origin and development of East European Jewry.