Re: [Cz-L] Our Origins

Sepharadi skin:
  When the Jews left Palestine all had swarthy skin something
like the Bedouins of today - desert people.
  I would rather wonder at the pink Ashkenazi skin which is a Nordic
   feature coming from the Nibelungen saga.
     I have a brownish skin and when young was nicknamed Tzigan.
   Which means Gipsy who are the best flamenco dancers in Spain.

Hardy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Burton" <robert.burton_at_rogers.com>
To: "'Ava Cohn'" <avatom_at_comcast.net>; <czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu>
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 11:14 PM
Subject: RE: [Cz-L] Our Origins

> This is an interesting topic that Ava Cohen any others are discussing now.
>
> I have lost a lot of my keenness over the past few years and have not been
> an assiduous researcher, but my late mother's father's line may well have
> been Sephardic. The family name was KULA (which doesn't sound very
> Jewish).
> My mother had the Sephardic skin, and facial features, as did her brother
> and sister. There are many villages by that name in today's Turkey - the
> main one has a storied reputation for fine oriental rugs. It is also a
> common Turkish family name.
>
> I found a list of landowners from 1808 on this website. TWO were Kulas -
> this is some 65 odd years after the Ottoman Empire lost this territory to
> Austro-Hungary. By the Edict of Toleration in 1761, as I understand, the
> Emperor allowed two (sic.) Jews to own land in a province. It appeals to
> my
> common sense to surmise that the Kulas were there before it became
> Austro-Hungary in order for them to have TWO landholdings. Until the Jews
> were dispossessed by the Romanians in the War, the family business was a
> large agribusiness - cattle - leather - tanning - soap was made at the
> factory of my mother's maternal grandfather, Noa Lehr, altho' his line
> appears to trace back to Russia. It is also noteworthy for the puzzlement
> factor, that I cannot find any Kula lineage between my grandfather and the
> 1808 lists.
>
> Another factor, including the history of the takeover from the Ottomans,
> is
> that this region is a kind of "east meets west" one. The region was close
> to
> the Black Sea, and the Silk Road passed through it, i.e. its geographical
> position lends itself to intermingling of east and west. There seems to be
> little sense in excluding Sephardim from a large and prosperous and
> ALLURING
> Jewish community that stretches back to antiquity and probably well into
> the
> Ottoman Empire.
>
> Robert Burton
>

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