Assyrian Jews
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The Assyrian Jews are a Semitic ethnic group indigenous to Assyria, a region in the Middle East, and are referred to as "Kurdish Jews" although they possess no known genetic, linguistic, religious, or historical lineage between them.[1][2][3][4] Their Assyrian Christian counterparts self-identify as Syriacs,[5] Arameans,[5] and Chaldeans;[5] and they share a common genetic, linguistic, and historical connection with Assyrian Jews, originally tracing their lineage from the Jewish Prophet Jonah who visited Nineveh to instruct the Assyrians to repent.[2][6][7]
Queen Helena of Adiabene, ruler of the Assyrian Kingdom thriving in the pre-Islamic era, was a notable convert of Judaism.[1] She was such a devout Jew that she abruptly decided to spend almost 21 years of her life in Jerusalem, where she spent much of her time rescuing Judea and its inhabitants from famine with her royal son Munbaz.[8][9]
The Prophet Nahum was also a notable Assyrian "Elkoshite" (or Al Qoshnaya) of Jewish faith and was from the Assyrian city of Al Qosh, which is sometimes referred to as "Elkosh" in some academic circles.
Consistent with the long history of the Christian Assyrian Genocide, Assyrian Jews experienced a holocaust at the hands of their Kurdish oppressors.[10][11] Assyrian Jews often lost members of their community from Kurdification strategies to the extent that a small group of them still self-identify as Kurdish Jews to this day, despite this concept never having existed in the Torah or Babylonian Talmud.[12]
Ashkenazi, Sephardic, and Mizrahi Jews genetically linked to ethnic groups of the Assyrian Jews, Syriacs, Arameans, Maronites, and Chaldeans according to several DNA studies. The most common Y-DNA haplogroups among Assyrians is T-M184, at 41.5%, which is frequent in Middle Eastern Jews.[13]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Brauer, Erich (1993). The Jews of Kurdistan. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 9780814323922. Search this book on
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "שואת אחינו האשוריים | הדרך המהירה שבין תרבות ישראל לתרבות אשור | יעקב מעוז". JOKOPOST | עיתון המאמרים והבלוגים המוביל בישראל (in עברית). 2019-07-18. Retrieved 2019-08-31.
- ↑ Assyrian Jews Aramaic language Лахлухи ܐܪܡܝܐ נאש דידן ארמית Nash Didan, retrieved 2019-09-05
- ↑ Sevdeen, Bayar Mustafa; Schmidinger, Thomas (2019-04-16). Beyond ISIS: History and Future of Religious Minorities in Iraq. Transnational Press London. ISBN 9781912997152. Search this book on
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "Iraq Sustainable Democracy Project". iraqdemocracyproject.org. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
- ↑ Gertoux, Gerard (2015-11-14). Jonah vs King of Nineveh: Chronological, Historical and Archaeological Evidence. Lulu.com. ISBN 9781329689480. Search this book on
- ↑ Brauer, Erich (1993). The Jews of Kurdistan. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press. p. 17. ISBN 0-8143-2392-8. Search this book on
- ↑ Raphael, Frederic (2013). A Jew Among Romans: The Life and Legacy of Flavius Josephus. Anchor Books, a division or Random House, Incorporated. ISBN 9780307456359. Search this book on
- ↑ "Queen Helena of Adiabene and Her Sons in Midrash and History". TheTorah.com. Retrieved 2019-08-31.
- ↑ Zaken, Mordechai (2007-01-01). Jewish Subjects and Their Tribal Chieftains in Kurdistan: A Study in Survival. BRILL. ISBN 9789004161900. Search this book on
- ↑ "The Middle East and Arab Countries: A Collection of Pamphlets]".
- ↑ Gavish, Haya (2010). Unwitting Zionists: The Jewish Community of Zakho in Iraqi Kurdistan. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 9780814333662. Search this book on
- ↑ Harutyunian, Ashot; Khudoyan, Armine; Yepiskoposian, Levon (2006-01-01). "Genetic Testing of Language Replacement Hypothesis in Southwest Asia". Iran and the Caucasus. 10 (2): 191–208. doi:10.1163/157338406780345899. ISSN 1573-384X.
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