What percentage of Polish Jews wanted to emigrate during the interwar era?

[Sid Guttridge]

The Jews have been so long in exile that they have mixed ancestry. Apparently the Jews of western Europe are more closely related to the Spanish and southern French than to anyone else. Eastern European Jews are apparently more closely related to the Palestinian Arabs. Falashas are more closely related to Ethiopians and Yemeni Jews to Yemeni Arabs. However, all have traces of Middle Eastern ancestry in differing amounts and are self identifying as Jewish.

It is entirely possible that the closest relatives to ancient Jews are actually Palestinian Arabs. I remember watching school buses unloading at the Nabatean archaeological site at Avdat in the Negev. It was striking that, while the Palestinians all looked very similar, the Jews looked more like a cross section of US society.

Cheers,

Sid.

[Futurist]

I believe that Ashkenazi Jews are something like half-Italian, no? Of course, I'm talking about historical Ashkenazi Jews. The last several decades of mass intermarriage in places such as the US and the USSR would have ensured that there are plenty of people who have Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry but also other types of ancestry--whether German, English, Irish, Scandinavian, Italian, et cetera.

[LAstryAGAIN]

Sadly the Jewish Communites in Poland...were all divided There were Orthadoz Jews who followed the Torah teachings in every way except one..they would not go up to Israel...there were other Jews who...tried to assimilate into Polish Society..The Bund was very strong...there were Jews who deceided that Socialism and or Communism was the Utopia of the Future....there were Secular Jews who adopted the attitude that they wernt Jews in Poland...but Poles who happened to be Jewish,,,,,

Years ago there was an online Book on Museum of Tolerance..."And I Still See their Faces" https://www.museumoftolerance.com/.../virtual-exhibits

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To be fair, it wasn't really like "they would not go up to Israel"; many believed Jews were forbidden to have their own state until the coming of the Jewish Messiah or, anyway didn't want to live in a Jewish secular state.