Summer 2017 Report on Origins of East European Jews

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Contested Origins of Eastern European Jewry: Clues from History, Linguistics, and Onomastics
by Alexander Beider, PhD
July 17, 2017

Covered are hypothesis:

Rhineland
Czech
East Slavic
Khazar
Briefly Caucasus, Byzantium, Persia, Crimea, Babylonia

What the various experts thought:
Most Jewish historians, Weinreich, Wexler, Poliak, Sand, Koestler, van Straten
and the authors own version: Beider

Article here:

http://www.academia.edu/34300804/Contested_Origins_of_Eastern_European_Jewry_Clues_ from_History_Linguistics_and_Onomastics._Avotaynu_ The_International_Review_of_Jewish_Genealogy_vol._ XXXIII_number_2_Summer_2017_pp._6-12

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Rheinland is east Europe?

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Rheinland is east Europe?

No. They probably mean origins of Askhenazi Jews (then it would include Germany and East Europe).