/his/ - History

Judaism was pretty strong in Yemen and Ethiopia for a while. Yemenite Jews were probably mostly immigrants, but Ethiopian Jews are genetically indistinguishable from the rest of Ethiopians.

Then you have Khazars, but that's a bit of a special case because they converted to Judaism to piss everyone else who wanted them to become Christian or Muslim. Also, it's not unlikely that they converted to Karaite branch of Judaism, which was at its peak in the Arab world at the moment and had a slightly different interpretation of Judaism, for example they rejected the Talmud and Mishnah on grounds that all Divine Law should be in Torah already and there is no reason to have any extra scriptures.

>>33750

>>33750

>Yemenite Jews were probably mostly immigrants,

This is debatable. There was a Jewish Yemenite king who was recorded as massacring local Christians by the name of Dhu Nuwas who may or may not have had a Jewish mother, nonetheless used his conversion to ally with the Sassanids.

All of his names attributed to him are mostly Arabic. There's also the forced conversion of the Idumaeans under the Hasmonean dynasty. Also there's one thing that tickled my autism, the Jews that go the Khazar court to convert the aristocracy are never recorded where they came from. Were they Mountain Jews? Their geographical proximity would certainly have helped. How long have the Jews inhabited the Caucasus for?

>>33755

I remember a dumb documentary trying to say the Scythians were descendant partly from Jews

what about converts to judaism during the middle ages? I know it happened, but does anyone know the extent? I wouldn't be surprised if people did it because "oh hey these are the chosen people from the bible" or "jesus isn't answering my prayers therefore he really isn't the messiah".

>>33968

There are no records but it assumed that most medieval Jewish converts were women judging by Ashkenazi genetics