[Cz-L] Our origin

Hi,
Just to emphasize facts already noted by other list members:
1. Family tales related both to my paternal and maternal ancestors, JURGRAU
and HASS, say that they lived in Galicia before arriving into Bukovina in
the beginning of the 18th century.
2. Both families claim to have roots in Spain.
3. Both families use the "Sephard" Jewish prayers form, and not the
"Aschkenaz" one, but this may be also because the "Hassidim" adopted this
form.
4. Although none of us is tall, blond and Blue-eyed - we all look like
"Aschkenasies".
So, what is the conclusion?
When the Spanish-Empire Jews were forced to convert or leave Spain, a large
portion of them took a route that gradually brought them to eastern Europe.
During the generations, inter-community marriages softened the differences
(not to forget unavoidable non-Jewish blood...).
Finding the origins of a community, if possible to define such, may appear
to be difficult, if not impossible. All prior posts related to individuals
that lived in the past, having no specific significance except being the
"tree root" as known to the poster.
Extrapolation of information from singles to communities is hazardous. Take
for example the following non-common situation: One of the Jurgrau family
members was born in Kananetz-Podolsk in 1854. He was married in Grosny on
1880. His wife was born in Grosny. Their first son was born in Grosny on
1882, but the only additional child I'm aware of was born in 1896 in the
USA! Later on these parents lived in Rostow-Sur-Don, meaning they've left
the USA and came back to Eastern-Europe.
To my humble opinion, assuming that such migrations were common for
significant part of the Jewish people - it may be impossible to find out
"The origin of the Bukovinian Jewry".
Shabbat Shalom
Yossi Yagur

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