>>19584924Ashkenazi jews have similar genetic proportions to Sicilians. (See pic.) They may have picked up some German or Slav ancestry at some point in time, but on a principal component analysis, "pure" ashkenazi jews appear to be closer to MENA than to Germans and Slavs. However, many jews are continually hybridizing with their European host populations, so many examples may contradict this in practice.
