Why do many jews have red?

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please explain
which ethnic group is responsible for passing on this red haired reccesive gene to ashkenazi jewish population.

Answer
Red hair appears in people with two copies of a recessive gene on chromosome 16 which causes a change in the MC1R protein comes mainly from people in Northern and Western Europeans and their descendants and between 1-2% of the worlds population has red hair

Did King David have Red hair and was he a full Hebrew?

Q. http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/7061-hair

Red-haired persons are supposed to be very passionate and traitorous; hence, perhaps, the red hair attributed to Judas in early Christian art'

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/7061-hair

Nirzevet . .Mother of David
http://www.chabad.org/theJewishWoman/article_cdo/aid/280331/jewish/Nitzevet-Mother-of-David.htm
David had a ruddy complexion. as well

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/20/us-greece-church-idUSBRE83J1A820120420
David had a ruddy complexion. as well

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/20/us-greece-church-idUSBRE83J1A820120420

Answer
I'm bemused by the idea of David having red hair (myself being a redhead...), but the evidence seems extraordinarily weak.

It seems that the myth of personality associated with redheads vary widely from culture to culture. In my culture, redheads are deemed to be neither passionate nor traitorous, but are claimed to be very quick to anger and violence (which is a thing that has always made people who knew me laugh when it was spoken - I am quite the opposite, but still very redheaded).

David was "a full Hebrew". The very first "Hebrews" - Abraham and his descendants - were a mixture of people, because it not only included Abraham's descendants but also the descendants of all of his servants whom he had obtained from far-flung regions. Likewise in the time of Moses, at the least several Egyptians and Jethro's family were among them, and probably several other "foreigners" that went unmentioned or barely mentioned (such as Ethiopians). The Hebrews were never an insular tribe in the sense that they excluded others from becoming members of their tribe(s) - excepting, of course, that they excluded the Canaanites (but not more distant peoples!) David's grandmother (on his father's side) was from Moab, but her children would certainly have been considered "full Hebrews" by the Israelites themselves - and so would David have been.

Finally: red hair was widely known in the Mediterranean region and the Middle East in ancient times. For example: the ancient Persians were renowned for their commonplace red hair. Alexander the Great was described as having auburn hair. **Repeated** occurrences in that region of wholesale conquest and near-obliteration of the entire male population through the centuries - by far-distant invaders (Egyptians, Ethiopians, Mongols, Arabs, Greeks, Persians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Hittites, etc. ad nauseum) - has probably altered the "common appearance" of the people in that region considerably over the centuries. The "average person" that we consider "native" to that region now probably does *not* closely resemble the people of David's time - any more than the "average person" living in the United States closely resembles the native people of that region, and for very much the same reasons.

- Jim, http://www.bible-reviews.com/

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