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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Rosenberg, Noah A.
• Weitzman, Steven P.

Titel

From Generation to Generation: The Genetics of Jewish Populations

Ist Teil von

• Human biology, 2013-12, Vol.85 (6), p.817-823

Ort / Verlag

Detroit: Wayne State University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• From the viewpoint of scholarly fields that treat Jewish culture and history as the object of investigation, the use of genetics as an approach for understanding Jewish populations and their history taps into an intrinsic Jewish cultural interest in origins and migrations, a recognition of nonidentical but overlapping senses of Jewish group membership-from cultural to religious to genealogical-and the centrality to Jewish culture of the inheritance of Jewishness within families, as reflected in the title phrase, "from generation to generation." Employing several approaches to the analysis of population relationships, they find no support for any special genetic similarity between Ashkenazi Jews and populations of the Caucasus, and in fact, they identify closer relationships between non-Jewish Caucasus populations and Jewish communities that historically resided in nearby places such as Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Kurdistan.\n Whether or not a shared understanding is attainable, or would even be at all desirable to the protagonists of Kahn's essay, her contribution is a call for scholars of different perspectives to pursue mutual engagement at a deeper, more informed level.