1 definition by Vik Ashki Lion
Jews who settled in Western, Central and Eastern Europe. Ashkenazim descend from Jews being exiled from Judea to Italy , who became Roman Jews who migrated to the Germany from Italy 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.
Famous Ashkenazim include Idan Raichel Oded Fehr, Aaron Swartz, Donna Feldman, Amir Arison, Nev Schulman, Yonatan Cohen, Sasha Baron Cohen, Gilbert Gottfried, Phoebe Snow, Adam Tsekhman, Josef Gerstmann, Maurycy Gottlieb, Mark Spitz, Jeremy stoppelman,Neal Shusterman, Yan and Raphael Feldman, Jeff Goldblum, Brad Garrett, Grant Heslov, Gina Bellman , Andrea Gabriel, Ali MacGraw, Bess Rous, Sarah Yarkin, Shel Silverstein, Richard Benjamin, Jack Kirby, Adam Sandler, Yair Lapid, Naomi Shemer, Daliah Lavi, Gila Almagor, Josh Bernstein, Josh Altman, Joshua Rush, Jennifer Rush, Susanna Hoffs, Jenna Wolfe , Ranaan Gissin, Israel Finkelstein,
Famous Ashkenazim include Idan Raichel Oded Fehr, Aaron Swartz, Donna Feldman, Amir Arison, Nev Schulman, Yonatan Cohen, Sasha Baron Cohen, Gilbert Gottfried, Phoebe Snow, Adam Tsekhman, Josef Gerstmann, Maurycy Gottlieb, Mark Spitz, Jeremy stoppelman,Neal Shusterman, Yan and Raphael Feldman, Jeff Goldblum, Brad Garrett, Grant Heslov, Gina Bellman , Andrea Gabriel, Ali MacGraw, Bess Rous, Sarah Yarkin, Shel Silverstein, Richard Benjamin, Jack Kirby, Adam Sandler, Yair Lapid, Naomi Shemer, Daliah Lavi, Gila Almagor, Josh Bernstein, Josh Altman, Joshua Rush, Jennifer Rush, Susanna Hoffs, Jenna Wolfe , Ranaan Gissin, Israel Finkelstein,
Amir Arison, Andrea Gabriel, Nev Schulman, Aaron Swartz, Idan Raichel are all Ashkenazi Jewish like me .
by Vik Ashki Lion November 22, 2022