Re: [Cz-L] A short history of Czerowitzer Jews.

Yes that's from where we came from : Cologne, Trier , Worms , Mainz,
Bacharach, Frankfurt.

    And how did we get there ? Following the Roman legions on their
 forays into the land of the Goths.
   Trading in war spoils like slaves and other movable goods.
  When Rome fell the Jews stayed on .
    Probably because they liked the countryside.
Hardy
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From: "alexander rosner" <alexanderrosner_at_yahoo.de>
To: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>; "CZERNOWITZ-L"
<Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Monday, September 06, 2010 12:41 PM
Subject: AW: [Cz-L] A short history of Czerowitzer Jews.

A reply to HARDY's mail as to where we came from, ( all based on
speculation )

We know that the Ashkenazim generally (not only the Jews of Bukowina)
originated
in the Rhine valley and surrounding areas and Yiddish is actually a
derivation
ofmedieval German.

When I'm asked where I came from I usually answer: Czernowitz, but after my
emigration from there I finally landed in Cologne, in the Rhine Valley,
just to discover that this city and this area with the help of some
imagination
could have been the place where my forefathers once lived.

As the place of the oldest known Jewish community north of the Alps it is
more
and more discovering it's ancient Jewish history.
Jews definitely came to this town in Roman times. The Roman emperor
Constantine
wrote two letters concerning the election of Jews into the City council and
concerning the synagogue. Marble pieces of the synagogue's floor cover
from a refurbishment in the 5th century were discovered.

Whether the Jewish population continuously lived in the town from Roman
times
till late Middle Ages is not definitely known, but it looks like the
location
of the synagogue didn't change till 1349 - the year of the end of the
medieval
Jewish Cologne.

http://www.museenkoeln.de/archaeologische-zone/ - unfortunately no English
link

Alex

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