ReinyDays
Gold Member
There are two main categories of Jews.
Sephardic : jews that have lived in middle eastern and surrounding countries for countless generations. Generally they have darker skin like their arab cousins.
Ashkenazi : jews that are from European countries and generally have white skin. They are the jews associated with the holocaust and after WWll colonized Palestine and founded the state of Israel.
It would have been Ashkenazi from Central Europe who arrived for California's Gold Rush ... they were definitely whities ...