I recently wrote an article on the origin of the Jews and where the name IU came from. It is to be published in Ancient Origins on the 25th May, so I understand. As Gerald Massey wrote in his great work, 'Ancient Egypt - Light of the World', published 1907, the Jews are not one race but united through a common belief and that belief goes back tens of thousands of years and to every corner of this planet, including Oceania. They all revered the same god that had very similar names, from Iah and Yah (Weh is the plural in Egyptian thus 'Yah Weh' for the moon was seen by some to have multiple aspects from Crescent to Full, Iahu, Iao, IO (by the Maori who helped build the Pyramids and can still be seen in Egypt today as the dwarf god 'BES'. Then there was the Sumerian EA and that name turns up in the Legend of HAR (Horus) at Edfu in Upper Egypt. Har was IUchar in Irish legend, and familiarly known as HRY. One aspect of the One God in Egypt as as a Potter, and so named PTAH. There are also connections in Ancient Egypt with Australia as can be seen by the Two Dog Palette in the Ashmolean museum in Oxford - a Kangaroo playing a didgeridoo with a Joey in its pouch, plus boomerangs in other carvings. And, now the strange Chest symbols found at Gobekli Tepi, 12, 000 years old match those on an Austrfalian Medicine Man.
My next article if accepted will be on the City of the Jews which was the capital of Israel when it was Egypt, IWNW - IW= IU=Jew. N is the genitive case and W the plural thus 'Of the Jews' and this was called ON in the Bible as well as Heliopolis and Bethshemesh - refer 1 Samuel 6:18. Joshua the Bethshemite could only be a King of Egypt - therefore 3rd Dynasty DJOSER. (Joshua son of Nnu/Noah who with Aye, the prophet Ahija, can only have been Djoser HEPREW Setepenre aka Horemheb Mery Ymn ...Miriam)
I have also just finished work on another article on the Ark which was the Benben or capstone of Mount Sinai alias the Great Pyramid. It had many names such as The Winged Disk, an emblem found all over Assyria and Egypt, and the Celestial Chamber of God. The Egyptians also called it M'AKKA - hence its resting place today in Mecca.
One can learn the history of the Ashkenazi from Milorad Palic's book, The Dictionary of the Khazars. But the interested student should also study everything on the Sephardic IU's of Egypt, and Spain.
Malcolm