How much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How much does
it influence our children? More than we wish to believe. While it has been argued that rigid …

Colonialism has three foundational concerns-violence, territory, and population control-all of
which rest on racialist discourse and practice. Placing the Zionist project in Israel/Palestine …

Abstract Historically, European Jews have specialized in financial services while being the
victims of antisemitism. We find that the present-day demand for finance is lower in German …

Historical sociolinguistics is a comparatively new area of research, investigating difficult
questions about language varieties and choices in speech and writing. Jewish historical …

The search for a method that utilizes biological information to predict humans' place of origin
has occupied scientists for millennia. Over the past four decades, scientists have employed …

Abstract The origins of Ashkenazi Jews remain highly controversial. Like Judaism,
mitochondrial DNA is passed along the maternal line. Its variation in the Ashkenazim is …

The origin and history of the Ashkenazi Jewish population have long been of great interest,
and advances in high-throughput genetic analysis have recently provided a new approach …

This book offers a unique perspective on Zionism. The author, a geneticist by training,
focuses on science, rather than history. He looks at the claims that Jews constitute a people …

The Yiddish language is over 1,000 years old and incorporates German, Slavic, and Hebrew
elements. The prevalent view claims Yiddish has a German origin, whereas the opposing …

The view that some or all of the Khazars, a central Asian people, converted to Judaism at
some point during the ninth or tenth century is widely accepted. A careful examination of the …