Investigating the Sephardic Jewish ancestry of colonial French Canadians through genetic and historical evidence

The Spanish Inquisition in 1492 resulted in the deaths of thousands of Spanish Jews and the exile of around 150,000. The Huguenots and Acadians who settled in Colonial French Canada are assumed to be of Christian faith and ancestry. To support this hypothesis, the researcher uses a novel combinatio...

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Autor principal:	Elizabeth Hirschman
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Publicado:	IDEA PUBLISHERS 2021
Materias:	Spanish Inquisition Acadians Huguenots Sephardic Jews French Canada DNA testing Social Sciences H Political science J
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:4f4a2a61a95c46c89b9ae2cbcb8da02c2021-11-22T19:04:48ZInvestigating the Sephardic Jewish ancestry of colonial French Canadians through genetic and historical evidence10.47264/idea.lassij/5.2.72664-8148https://doaj.org/article/4f4a2a61a95c46c89b9ae2cbcb8da02c2021-09-01T00:00:00Zhttps://ideapublishers.org/index.php/lassij/article/view/366https://doaj.org/toc/2664-8148 The Spanish Inquisition in 1492 resulted in the deaths of thousands of Spanish Jews and the exile of around 150,000. The Huguenots and Acadians who settled in Colonial French Canada are assumed to be of Christian faith and ancestry. To support this hypothesis, the researcher uses a novel combination of methods drawn from historical records and artifacts, genealogies and DNA testing. In recent years, this combination of methods has led to the discovery that several of the Plymouth Colony settlers, Central Appalachian Colonial settlers, and Roanoke Colony settlers were of Sephardic Jewish origin. Thus, using the new methodology of ancestral DNA tracing, the researcher document that the majority of Huguenot and Acadian colonists in French Canada were of Sephardic Jewish ancestry. They are most likely descended from Sephardic Jews who fled to France from the Iberian Peninsula in the late 1300s and early 1500s. The researcher additionally propose that some members of both groups continued to practice Judaism in the new world, thus becoming secret Jews or crypto-Jews. The researcher also finds evidence of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry in both groups. Elizabeth HirschmanIDEA PUBLISHERSarticleSpanish InquisitionAcadiansHuguenotsSephardic JewsFrench CanadaDNA testingSocial SciencesHPolitical scienceJENLiberal Arts and Social Sciences International Journal, Vol 5, Iss 2 (2021)
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description	The Spanish Inquisition in 1492 resulted in the deaths of thousands of Spanish Jews and the exile of around 150,000. The Huguenots and Acadians who settled in Colonial French Canada are assumed to be of Christian faith and ancestry. To support this hypothesis, the researcher uses a novel combination of methods drawn from historical records and artifacts, genealogies and DNA testing. In recent years, this combination of methods has led to the discovery that several of the Plymouth Colony settlers, Central Appalachian Colonial settlers, and Roanoke Colony settlers were of Sephardic Jewish origin. Thus, using the new methodology of ancestral DNA tracing, the researcher document that the majority of Huguenot and Acadian colonists in French Canada were of Sephardic Jewish ancestry. They are most likely descended from Sephardic Jews who fled to France from the Iberian Peninsula in the late 1300s and early 1500s. The researcher additionally propose that some members of both groups continued to practice Judaism in the new world, thus becoming secret Jews or crypto-Jews. The researcher also finds evidence of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry in both groups.
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title	Investigating the Sephardic Jewish ancestry of colonial French Canadians through genetic and historical evidence
title_short	Investigating the Sephardic Jewish ancestry of colonial French Canadians through genetic and historical evidence
title_full	Investigating the Sephardic Jewish ancestry of colonial French Canadians through genetic and historical evidence
title_fullStr	Investigating the Sephardic Jewish ancestry of colonial French Canadians through genetic and historical evidence
title_full_unstemmed	Investigating the Sephardic Jewish ancestry of colonial French Canadians through genetic and historical evidence
title_sort	investigating the sephardic jewish ancestry of colonial french canadians through genetic and historical evidence
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Investigating the Sephardic Jewish ancestry of colonial French Canadians through genetic and historical evidence

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