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

I lived in the Frankfurt area for 20 years. The Electrical Company was building a new building not far from the Main River, while digging the foundation they came across old Jewish graves. A story went out that there was a very good possibility that Jews were in Germany before Germans.

Arthur

--- On Mon, 9/6/10, HARDY BREIER <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET> wrote:

> From: HARDY BREIER <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] A short history of Czerowitzer Jews.
> To: "CZERNOWITZ-L" <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>, "alexander rosner" <alexanderrosner_at_yahoo.de>
> Date: Monday, September 6, 2010, 11:47 AM
> 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
> ----- Original Message ----- 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/%a0 -
> unfortunately no English
> link
>
> Alex
>
> -=
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