Eurogenes Averages For Various Jewish Groups

[waam]

Wait, are you a Mountain Jew? I thought you were Sephardic.

I think Maghrebi Jews are 100% assimilated now. By 1970 or around that time there were almost no Jews left in North Africa.

I'm 50% Mountain Jewish, 25% Yemenite Jewish and 25% Libyan Jewish. And yeah I would agree, for me when I think of the standard typical Israeli a North African Jew pops to mind.

[Sp_loa]

Wait, are you a Mountain Jew? I thought you were Sephardic.

I think Maghrebi Jews are 100% assimilated now. By 1970 or around that time there were almost no Jews left in North Africa.

He is Mountain Jew and Libyan Jew and Yemenite Jewish mix if I remember correctly.
Non of those is technically Sephardic. Libyan Jews aren’t very Sephardic, similar to Syrian Jews the Sephardi influence was small.

[Leto]

Small place in the central. Most people here are mixed so it’s hard to find someone of pure something.
There are even some full gentile families or half gentile families (with atypical things like half serbs or 3/4 siberians like WTF lol) where I live. Someone in my school is 50% ethnic gentile Iranian like HOW?!

Most common thing here are ofcourse mixes Ashkenazi Jews, North African jews, Yemenite Jews, East Sephardi Jews (Bulgaria and Turkey), Iraqi, Syrian, Kurdish and Iranian Jews and that’s about it.

Not really Jews from the Caucasus/Greece&Yugoslavia/Lebanon/Italy where I live.

I guess that's what the Zionists wanted - to bring over Jews from all over the world and mix them up. Are there many Ashkenazi-Sephardic mixes over there?

[Leto]

I'm 50% Mountain Jewish, 25% Yemenite Jewish and 25% Libyan Jewish. And yeah I would agree, for me when I think of the standard typical Israeli a North African Jew pops to mind.

Ashkenazim seem to be the founding stock and dominant sociopolitically from what I know.

[waam]

Ashkenazim seem to be the founding stock and dominant sociopolitically from what I know.

Well I guess it also depends on where you live. Where I live North African Jews make up a big chunk of the population and generally if you take all Mizrahim into account we are more numerous than Ashkenazim in Israel.

[Leto]

I thought North African Jews were culturally Sephardic.

[Sp_loa]

I guess that's what the Zionists wanted - to bring over Jews from all over the world and mix them up. Are there many Ashkenazi-Sephardic mixes over there?

Yes I think nationally speaking a bit less than 35-40% of people from my generation are mix of Ashkenazi/Mizrai/Sephardi.
Where I live probably more.
Still very common to find pure Ashkenazim and pure Moroccan Jews.
Not common to find pure Iraqi Jews or other pure North African Jews.

[waam]

I thought North African Jews were culturally Sephardic.

The Mizrahi category is broader and would include anyone from Moroccan Jews to Turkish Jews to Bukharan Jews and anything in between. It's more common to refer to someone as Mizrahi rather than Sephardi (even if it's a proper Sephardi we're talking about), although it's quite interchangeable.

[Leto]

Yes I think nationally speaking a bit less than 35-40% of people from my generation are mix of Ashkenazi/Mizrai/Sephardi.
Where I live probably more.
Still very common to find pure Ashkenazim and pure Moroccan Jews.
Not common to find pure Iraqi Jews or other pure North African Jews.

It is noticeable, Israelis tend to looks darker and more Near Eastern than Jews in the US, Russia or Europe. This politician is a typical Israeli, I guess (half Iraqi half Ashkenazi from Russia and Romania)

[Sp_loa]

It is noticeable, Israelis tend to looks darker and more Near Eastern than Jews in the US, Russia or Europe. This politician is a typical Israeli, I guess (half Iraqi half Ashkenazi from Russia and Romania)

She is pretty typical European looking Jewish.
There are much darker than her, and few that are much lighter.

When I hangout with my close friends sometimes I’m the only one with dark hair in the room, but that’s what happens when your friends are mostly Russian lol.