Ashkenazim descend from Italian Jews who migrated to the Rheinland 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. Ashkenazim are 100% Mediterranean like sephardic. Ashkenazim are genetically distant from Russians or Germanics .Ashkenazim overlap and cluster both in the Eastern Mediterranean as well as the Western Mediterranean.
Famous Ashkenazim are Gina bellman, Gina gershon, oded fehr,
peter falk, Paul Ben Victor, David proval who played richie aprile on the sopranos is in fact a Jew, the guy who played Bobby is half Italian and half Jewish, Sarah Silverman, Zach braff, Ben Stiller, Jeff Goldblum,
David Schwimmer, Josh radnor, jermemy stoppelman, Ari arison, Josh Gad, Gal Gadot, Sasha Baron Cohen, Adam Sandler, Jon bernthal, Alan arkin, Richard Benjamin, Maggie siff, Ali McGraw, Ben Shapiro and even the guy who played Hector salamanca on
breaking bad is a Jew in real life
