DNA and the Sephardic Diaspora:

Spanish and Portuguese Jews in Europe

By Abraham D. Lavender Ph.D.

from HaLapid Winter, 2003

The study of genetics, and especially the concept of DNA testing, has gained much interest in recent years in the medical and forensic areas. This interest also is beginning to increase in the area of genealogy and in several areas of academia. Since the mid-1990s, I have introduced my classes in ethnicity to the research of L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Paolo Menozzi, and Alberto Piazza, The History and Geography of Human Genes