British Jewish Autosomal

[JQP4545]

Are British (Scottish, English, Irish) Jews related to Ashkenazi, Sephardic, or more to British gentiles? I mean older communities that existed prior to movements from Eastern Europe in the 100 or so years.

[JQP4545]

For example, there are communities of Ethiopian Jews and Asian Jews. So are British Jews British people who practice Judaism or more related to their continental counterparts?

[Anglojew]

Are British (Scottish, English, Irish) Jews related to Ashkenazi, Sephardic, or more to British gentiles? I mean older communities that existed prior to movements from Eastern Europe in the 100 or so years.

They were mainly Sephardi and then later mainly Ashkenazi.

[JQP4545]

They were mainly Sephardi and then later mainly Ashkenazi.

So on a DNA test they would be more Middle Eastern and not Orcadian?

[JQP4545]

What about this guy?

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[Anglojew]

So on a DNA test they would be more Middle Eastern and not Orcadian?

No. Are Orcadians would be fairly similar to Icelanders I think.

[Anglojew]

What about this guy?

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Yeah, there's both Jews and Scots with red hair. People have theorised a connection.

[JQP4545]

Yeah, there's both Jews and Scots with red hair. People have theorised a connection.

You don't think its from conversion? I mean the community was very small in the UK for hundreds of years. It would seem likely that British Jews had to intermarry.

[SobieskisavedEurope]

There are almost no indigenous British Jews they were kicked out of Britain in the Edict of Expulsion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_of_Expulsion

[Anglojew]

You don't think its from conversion? I mean the community was very small in the UK for hundreds of years. It would seem likely that British Jews had to intermarry.

There's various British Israelite and other theories but they haven't been proved genetically except that some Irish Cowan's are priestly Cohens. Ancient Israelites had red headed members. It's not a new thing.