ASHKENAZI: entry from The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia
ASHKENAZI, ASHKENAZIM:...constituted before 1933 some nine-tenths of the Jewish people (about 15,000,000 out of 16,500,000)[as of 1968 it is believed by some Jewish authorities to be closer to 100%].
Excerpt: from The Dispossessed Majority, by Wilmot Robertson
The [non-Israelite] Jews in Slavic lands, the Ashkenazim , are to be distinguished from the Sephardim, the purer-blooded Mediterranean Jews...
The Zionist pioneers of Palestine were mostly Ashkenazim... The "un-Jewish" [non-Israelite] temperment and character of these Zionists were accented by their "un-Jewish" [non-Israelite} appearance.
Excerpt: from The American Jew, by Jewish Author James Yaffe
It has been estimated that 95 percent of the Jews in America today are descended from these East European [Khazar.Ashkenazi] immigrants. What the American Jew is now, his style of living and thinking, comes to him from the shtetl [a small town or vilage formerly found in Eastern Europe], tempered in the furnace of lower East Side [of New York City].
...the early Sephardic settlers, for example, left practically no descendants who are still Jewish...They disappeared not because they intermarried but because they refused to intermarry...without sufficient choice among their own, they remained unmarried and died out...choosing extinction rather than assimilation.
Dr. Lilienthal arrived at the same conclusion - that the Ashkenazi Jews are NOY Semitic:
These "Ashkenazi [Khazar] Jews" (the Jews of Eastern Europe), whose numbers were swelled by Jews who fled from Germany at the time of the Crusades and during the Black Death, have little or no trace of Semitic blood.
From the November 8, 1990 Sun-News (Las Cruces, New Mexico) "viewpoints" by Rabbi Cyril A. Stanway:
...Though many Jews are not of Semitic origin, we are the religious, spiritual, and national [but not genetic] descendants of those who first formed the early foundations of Judaism who were Semites.
More than once in history, genetically non-Judahite (non-Isrealite) peoples became known as Judahites or Jews, and were, therefore looked upon as Israelites. The Bible records this very thing occurring during Esther's day:
...many among the [heathen non-Judahite] peoples of the land [of Babylon] became Jews [converts in name only] for the dread of the Jews [genetic Judahites] had fallen on them. (Esther 8:17)