Posted on 02/06/2022 2:56:05 AM PST by Kaslin
You forgot to mention Buchara Jews and Bnei Menashe (North Eastern India, oriental features).
It didn’t take.
I didn’t know about Bukhara Jews and I always thought the Bnei Menashe weren’t really genetically Jews in any way.
The descendants of the Khazars weren’t genetically Jewish, but over the centuries, they mingled with the Jewish gene pool. Bnei Menashe are of the lost tribe of Menashe, as the name implies. But they suffered persecution in the far east, which is where they got the slanty eyes, high cheekbones and yellow skin. There were some Jews along the great silk road who were descendants of the Tribe of Judah, a lost trade mission, but looked for all the world to be Chinese. They, like the Bnei Menashe, kept unmistakably Jewish traditions, but genetically got mixed in with the Han people, and were isolated from the rest of Jewish world like the Ethiopian Jews, so they did not re-mix into the gene pool like the Khazars.
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