european jews are polish….maybe that is why
"Simultaneously, northwestern Russians and northeastern Poles bear some similarities to Baltic (Latvians) and Finno-Ugrian groups (Estonians) of northeastern Europe, especially on the level of U5 haplogroup frequencies. The occurrence of K1a1b1a subcluster in Poles and Polish Roma is one of the firstdirect proofs of the presence of Ashkenazi-specific mtDNA lineages in non-Jewish European populations."
http://www.khazaria.com/genetics/poles.html