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Author Goldstein, David B.

Title Jacob's legacy : a genetic view of Jewish history / David B. Goldstein
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 148 pages) : map
Contents Keeping God's house : Y chromosomes and Old Testament priests -- Lost tribe no more? The Black Jews of South Africa -- Looking out for number two : the case of the Ashkenazi Levites -- Those Jewish mothers : the development of female-defined ethnicity in the Jewish diaspora -- Look on mine affliction : genetic diseases and Jewish history -- Jews, genes, and the future
Summary Who are the Jews? Where did they come from? What is the connection between an ancient Jewish priest in Jerusalem and today's Israeli sunbather on the beaches of Tel Aviv? These questions stand at the heart of this engaging book. Geneticist David Goldstein
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-139) and index
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Subject Jews -- History.
Jews -- Origin.
Human genetics.
Jews -- ethnology
Jews -- Genetics
Physical anthropology.
Population genetics.
Anthropology, Physical
Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Genetics, Population
Jews -- ethnology
Jews -- genetics
Jews -- history
physical anthropology.
HISTORY -- Jewish.
RELIGION -- Judaism -- History.
Population genetics
Physical anthropology
Human genetics
Jews
Jews -- Origin
Genetik
Entwicklung
Humanbiologie
Genetik.
Entstehung.
Juden.
Juden.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780300145106
0300145101
1282089412
9781282089419