There are two theories about the origins of Georgians Jews. One corresponds to the babylonian captivity and another one to the assyrian converts to Judaism. In both of these cases, huge number of mesopotamian people converted to Judaism and also to some degree interbred with judean captives. That I believe is the case for Iraqi, Iranian,Kurdish and probably mountain Jews, since they are descendants of iranian jews with some extra iranian admixture.
Georgian Jews could very well descend from huge number of mesopotamian converts that mixed with judeans in captivity, but the northern shift that georgian jews have even compared to assyrians makes me think that the second theory holds dome thruth in it.
The second theory is based on georgian jews just being descendants of assyrian converts who then migrated to Georgia. This theory can hold some truth, because not only georgian jews are the closest people to assyrians and vice versa, but because they show closer proximity to armenians and to southern caucasians as well. The additional admixture that georgian jews could have picked up in my opinion might have come from some ancient anatolian source while they were on their way to georgia. The reason why most likely they don't have any georgian blood in their veins is because ever since they arrived in Georgia 26 centuries ago they were already extremely homogeneous. They had their own quarters in eastern and western georgian towns and the religious barrier also pushed them away from interbreeding with georgians.
Georgian Jews could very well descend from huge number of mesopotamian converts that mixed with judeans in captivity, but the northern shift that georgian jews have even compared to assyrians makes me think that the second theory holds dome thruth in it.
The second theory is based on georgian jews just being descendants of assyrian converts who then migrated to Georgia. This theory can hold some truth, because not only georgian jews are the closest people to assyrians and vice versa, but because they show closer proximity to armenians and to southern caucasians as well. The additional admixture that georgian jews could have picked up in my opinion might have come from some ancient anatolian source while they were on their way to georgia. The reason why most likely they don't have any georgian blood in their veins is because ever since they arrived in Georgia 26 centuries ago they were already extremely homogeneous. They had their own quarters in eastern and western georgian towns and the religious barrier also pushed them away from interbreeding with georgians.
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