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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Dutch |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; List of Figures and Tables; I. The Controversy: Germany or Khazaria; II. The Khazars; III. The Development of Ashkenazi Jewry by Region (1): France, Germany, Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, and Hungary; IV. The Development of Ashkenazi Jewry by Region (2): The Caucasus, The Crimea, Poland, and Lithuania until 1500; V. The Development of Ashkenazi Jewry by Region (3): Poland, Lithuania, and Russia from 1500 to 1900: The Numerical Increase; VI. Yiddish; VII. Genetic Research (and Anthropology); VIII. The Revised Origin and Development of East European Jewry.