The Jews of Europe were not simply Germans, Italians, Russians, French, etc who happened to practise the Jewish religion.
History and genetic research shows us a very different story.
Ashkenazi Jews are for the most part descended from Israelites who headed north and west from Palestine after the Romans destroyed Judea in AD 135. Some converts from Europe were brought in but that all ended when the Christians strarted passing strong laws banning Jews from taking on converts, forcing them into ghettos, banning from owning lands, farms, property and jobs for most Jews. Basically due to Christian bigoted laws the Jews of Europe became a nation inside a nation. Situation was basically the same in North Africa and the Middle East.
Leumas and others talk like the Jews of Europe are literally just Europeans who converted to Judaism over the centuries. Its historical-revisionism and dishonest propaganda.
The above are PERFIDIOUS ZIONIST MYTHS just like the NAZI myths they fabricated for themselves as being Übermenschen descendants of Atlantians.
Let me remind you of a FACT... the Sumerian peripatetic PIMP was as much of a real guy as Kal El.
And thus... this myth of "jews as a race" is a myth just as the myth of the Exodus.
The only real thing is that there were simpleton HUMANS who followed religious MYTHS and FABLES and FAIRY TALES of various kinds and who were HUMANS just like all the other humans from the places they were born on.
All humans are a mixture of humans... there are no and never were Übermenschen the product of 12 mythical Sumerian men the great-grandchildren of a mythical Sumerian pimp inbreeding with their sisters and mothers for centuries while also being slaves in Egypt.
Get that... impossible fairy tales like a man shooting laser out of his eyes and a man parting the sea and so on are all CHILDISH IDIOTIC fables.