Ashkenazi

[Jessica]

[Ashkenazim] descend from Italian Jews who migrated to the [Rheinland] and THAN eventually to Eastern Europe due to oppression , persecution, discrimination against. Ashkenazim are genetically levantines on their male line (Y-DNa) and Mediterranean on their maternal line (mt-DNa) . Ashkenazim cluster and overlap with Sicilians , Tuscans, Calabrese, Sardinians, Apulians, Bergamo, Sardinians, Greeks ([Thessaly] , Cretans) , Cypriots, Maltese as the female originates from southern Italian, central Italian and Greek woman. Ashkenazim and sephardic cluster closest together as they are BOTH semitic and Mediterranean. Ashkenazim are 100% Mediterranean like sephardic. Ashkenazim are genetically distant from Russians or [Germanics] .Ashkenazim overlap and cluster both in the Eastern Mediterranean as well as the Western Mediterranean.

[Greta]

A Jewish person of central or eastern European descent, traditionally speaking Yiddish. About 80 percent of Jewish people today are Ashkenazim.