Why do most full-blood Jews look like Europeans rather than looking like other ppl of Middle-Eastern descent?

Answer 1

A simple question with an easy answer.

First, where ever they go, in order to marry one of their children, they ask those who marry to convert. This means that eventually they come to look like the local population.

Second, the Jewish religion used to prostelitize, go out, preach and convert people to their religion. They did this for a very long time, and only stopped, when a Roman Emperor made it illegal and punishable by death to prostelitize the Jewish religion. They had Rabbis go all over the known world by that time though, and Jews were everywhere in the world, although not from the original strain of people.

Several times, entire nations of people converted, several thousands all at once. And most Jews alive to day are desended from these peoples, not the original population.

Answer 2

My friend this is simply not true at all.
European Jews look like Europeans
Middle Eastern Jews look Middle Eastern
Ethiopian Jews look Ethiopian
Indian Jews look Indian
Yemenite Jews look like Yemenites
And I could go on and on
According to the Israeli statistics that were conducted in the 2000 as reported at that by Arutz Sheva the Ashkenazim Jews (Easter European, German, British, Some French what was left after the war Italian Jews, and Swiss Jews) made up 45% of the population. The Sephardi Jews (those form Spanish origins, Greece, Northern Africa, Latin America, Middle East, India and Ethiopia) made up 48.3%. The rest were mixtures between Ashkenazim and Sephardi.
In the states there was a large influx of German and Eastern European Jews, hence more Ashkenzim.
I hope this answers your question.

Answer 3

because they settled in europe, most europeans are actually jews just like americans are. if you take the book of mormon for its historical value then you would see that jews discovered america around 600 bc and looking at the nose of american indians and comparing them to jewish noses it seems pretty plausible. by the way im not a mormon but i think its possible that a family of jews escaped the babylonian captivity mentioned in daniel and that they sailed here to the "new jerusalem" there again legend has it that mary and joseph sailed to southern france in a boat w/o oars during the cruxifiction and founded a dynasty of kings in europe known as the marevengians. is it true? who knows but often there is truth in legend since it is nothing more than stories passed down by word of mouth over centuries. and know im just babbyling b/c its 5:30 am lol but its no secret that the jews have traveled all over the world going back to the earliest times.

Answer 4

Probably during the course of time when Jews lived in Europe they were persecuted and women were raped (this being a common practice) thus producing children that had European genes.

as side note: it is against the Jewish religion to prostlyize so the first answer is completely wrong. But yes once in a while people did convert and that was pretty rare. Being raped was much more common.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

because the ashkenazi jews (european jews, who are the ones you are talking about) have lived in europe for over a thousand years. nevertheless genetic testing still shows that the origins of the ashkenazim have their origins in the middle east.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazim#DNA_clues

Answer 7

This is the part where you ask who are the real Jews?

It seems we have some imposters

Answer 8

Jewish is a religion in the same way that Catholic or Muslim is a religion. Anyone from anywhere can be a "full blooded Jew'" Israeli is a nationality.

Answer 9

Because they're european.