In 1956 a mikveh was found in Cologne, dating from the Roman period.
The report by the involved Archeologists were published in 1959.
Happy New Year to all
Pessach/ Paul Heger
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 5:41 AM, alexander rosner
<alexanderrosner_at_yahoo.de> wrote:
> 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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