Jewish Interest
Group
Presentation
Announcement
by Rick Cauthen
Israel Pickholtz
The
Hamilton County Genealogical Society is extremely excited to announce that
author, Israel Pickholtz, who resides in Jerusalem, Israel, will be presenting
“Jewish Genetic Genealogy – A Study in Endogamy.” Mr. Pickholtz is the author
of the book entitled “Endogamy: One Family, One People.” This book explores the
topic of Jewish genetic genealogy and how it relates to the topic of endogamy.
Endogamy,
for those readers who are not familiar with the term, simply means marrying
mainly with in the tribe. In other words, Jews married and consequently
reproduced only within the limits of the local community. As many of the fans
of Jewish genealogy already know, Eastern European Jews spent their lives
living in small little villages refer to as shtetls. Thus Jews reproduced
within a very tight gene pool. When reviewing your DNA results in terms of
countries of origin, when you spot European Jewish, you found a very accurate
feature of your genetic history. This is unique for Jews of Eastern European
descent. This is all the result of endogamy since the Jewish bloodlines have
been kept very finite.
This
presentation will take place on Thursday, August 4, 2016 at the public library
of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Main Library, third floor. The presentation
will begin at 12:00PM to 2:00PM. The library is located at 800 Vine St.,
Cincinnati, OH 45202. Please make plans and mark your calendars now to join us
for what promises to be a very exciting presentation.
I am really looking forward to this. Although I am not Jewish, I have both colonial and northern Germany branches that would qualify as endogamous populations.
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