Are Genes Jewish?: Conceptual Ambiguities in the New Genetic AgeJean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, The University of Michigan, 2005 - 17 pages |
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... questions the legitimacy of basing an identity solely upon this genetic evidence . Moreover , the presence of this haplotype in the DNA of a relatively few members of the community is then used to expand claims of Jewishness for the ...
... questions the legitimacy of basing an identity solely upon this genetic evidence . Moreover , the presence of this haplotype in the DNA of a relatively few members of the community is then used to expand claims of Jewishness for the ...
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... questions about where Jewishness comes from , and by extension , " who is a Jew . " We know Jewishness is transmitted by the mother , but in the age of reproductive technology this transmission becomes less straightforward : is it the ...
... questions about where Jewishness comes from , and by extension , " who is a Jew . " We know Jewishness is transmitted by the mother , but in the age of reproductive technology this transmission becomes less straightforward : is it the ...
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... question here is : if genes seem to be demonstrably Jewish in one domain , how can they not be Jewish in all domains ? How can the con- vincing conjectures generated by population geneticists about the migrato- ry and mating patterns of ...
... question here is : if genes seem to be demonstrably Jewish in one domain , how can they not be Jewish in all domains ? How can the con- vincing conjectures generated by population geneticists about the migrato- ry and mating patterns of ...
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Blood and Belief: The Circulation of a Symbol Between Jews and Christians David Biale Limited preview - 2007 |