Jewish History and Genetics

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Benbassa, Esther (1999). The Jews of France. Princeton, N.J.:  Princeton University Press.

Benbassa, Esther and Aron Rodrique (1995). Sephardi Jewry. Berkeley:  University of California Press.

Bodian, Miriam (1997). Hebrews of the Portuguese Nation. Conversos and Community in Early Modern Amsterdam. Bloomington:  Indiana University Press.

Carvajal-Carmona, Luis G. et al (2000). Strong Amerind/White Sex Bias and a Possible Sephardic Contribution among the Founders of a Population in Northwest Colombia. American Journal of Human Genetics 67:1287-1295.

Cesarini, David (2004). Port Jews. Jewish Communities in Cosmopolitan Maritime Trading Centres, 1550-1950. London:  Frank Cass.

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Gonsalez, A.M. et al. (2007). Mitochondrial lineage M1 traces an early human backflow to Africa. BMC Genomics 9/8:223. U6 in northwest Africa and offshore is probably better associated with Jewish than Arab expansion.

Hammer, M.F. et al. (2000) Jewish and Middle Eastern non-Jewish populations share a common pool of Y-chromosome biallelic haplotypes PNAS 97/12:6769-74.  http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/97/12/6769.

Hernandez, Frances (1993). “The Secret Jews of the Southwest,” in Martin A. Cohen and Abraham J. Peck, Sephardim in the Americas. London and Tuscaloosa, Ala.:  American Jewish Archives and University of Alabama Press.

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Jacobs, Joseph (1901-1906). “Personal Names,” in The Jewish Encyclopedia. A Descriptive Record of the History, Religion, Literature, and Customs of the Jewish People from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, pub. By Isidore Singer and ed. by Cyrus Adler. Orig. published in London. Reprint by KTAV Publishing House, 1980. Available online at http://www.JewishEnclopedia.com/.

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