Jewish Ukraine West- Background

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Background

Jews arrived in the region that is today western Ukraine at various times by different routes throughout the diaspora. By the end of the first century CE there were already Jews from the Near East who had settled in the Crimea on the Black Sea. More than a thousand years later beginning in the 13th century, there was a major migration of Ashkenazi Jews eastward from Germany. This migration continued until the Chmielnitski massacres in the mid 17th century. In the 19th century, Jews from the northern part of the Russian Pale moved to Podolia and Kherson gubernias and Bessarabia to settle on agricultural colonies. In addition to migrations there were conversions into the Jewish population, the most well-known being that of the Khazars. Thus, the sources of Jewish population in western Ukraine from whence our ancestors emerged are varied.



RESOURCES ON ODESSA AND THE UKRAINE:

http://www.rootsweb.com/~ukrodess/index.html

LEARNING ABOUT GENETIC GENEALOGY:

An article on Jews and DNA:

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/jews-and-their-dna-12496


In addition to the Family Tree DNA tutorials, the following are helpful DNA 101 websites:

http://blairdna.com/dna101.html
http://www.kerchner.com/anonftp/pub/introg&g.htm

An interview with Jon Entine, author of Abraham's Children: Race, Identity and the DNA of the Chosen People:

http://reformjudaismmag.org/Articles/index.cfm?id=1321

An overview of the origins of the various haplogroups found in Jewish populations, including the Cohen Modal Haplotype can be found at:

http://www.jogg.info/11/coffman.htm

A glossary for those unfamiliar with the terminology used by genetic genealogists can be found at:

http://www.isogg.org/course/glossary.htm

Wikipedia is also a reliable source for information on genetic genealogy