Do scientist consider European Jews to be Semitic, or European?

Question

Do scientist consider European Jews to be Semitic, or European?

Answer 1

I know there are two branches of ethnic Jews: Sephardi and Ashkenazim. I don't know what you mean by "European". Sephardi Jews are those whose origins are more Middle Eastern, Moorish, Cradle of Civilization area; while Ashkenazim are more northern European, Russian, Slavic, etc.

Answer 2

ashkenazi - jew of european descent

sephardi - jew of arab or north african descent

there are also ethiopian jews.

i suppose that ashkenazis are technically  mixed, even though they are often placed under the category of "semitic."

Answer 3

they are considered Hebrews , gods chosen people, so what does it matter

Answer 4

Here you go::

Good question  and Judism is both a ethnicity and a religion

and since Jewish means (from Juda) the answer would probably be Semitic or Caucasian generally speaking.

Ashkenazi Jews (Ashkenaz meaning "Germany" in Medieval Hebrew, denoting their Central European base), the Sephardic Jews (meaning "Spanish" or "Iberian" in Hebrew, denoting their Spanish and Portuguese base) and Mizrahi Jews (a term referring to a heterogeneous collection of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish communities). The division is based on the fact that those major groups lived during the hundred years of Jewish diaspora in two totally different worlds which were social different from each other. During that time frame two different and distinct Jewish religious cultures were established. The division between the two groups is rough and their boundaries aren’t solid. For example, the Yemenite Jews (originating from Yemen and Oman) are considered occasionally to be a separate group ; and occasionally there is a differentiation between the descendants of the deportees of Spain and the other non-ashkenazi groups.

Despite this diversity, the Ashkenazi Jews represent the bulk of modern Jewry, with at least 70% of Jews worldwide (and up to 90% prior to World War II and the Holocaust). As a result of their emigration from Europe during the wartime periods, Ashkenazim also represent the overwhelming majority of Jews in the New World continents and in countries previously without native Jewish communities, such as the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Argentina, Australia, Brazil and South Africa. In France, emigration of Mizrahim from North Africa has led them to outnumber pre-existing European Jews. Only in Israel is the Jewish population representative of all groups, a melting pot independent of each group's proportion within the overall world Jewish population.

Smaller Jewish groups include the Georgian Jews and Mountain Jews from the Caucasus; Indian Jews including the Bene Israel, Bnei Menashe, Cochin Jews and Bene Ephraim; the Romaniotes of Greece; the Italkim or Bené Roma of Italy; various African Jews, including most numerously the Beta Israel of Ethiopia; the Bukharan Jews of Central Asia; and Chinese Jews, most notably the Kaifeng Jews, as well as various other distinct but now extinct communities.