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Article: Routes to roots: finding the origins of Eastern European Jewry.(NEWS)
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- The Jewish Advocate (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 24, 2009
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The theory that Jews of Eastern European descent are of Germanic--that is Ashkenazi--origin is almost universally acknowledged as a truth. Like some other scholars, Hebrew University's Judeo-Slavic researcher Dr. Alexander Kulik of the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies and vice-chair of the Chais Center of Jewish Studies in Russian at the Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies, says this is far from accurate. Indeed, he is combining both traditional and innovative research approaches to explore the true origins of Eastern European Jews, whose progeny accounts for a majority of contemporary world Jewry.
The "common knowledge theory," as Kulik described it, ...