RE: [Cz-L] Our Origins

The discussions about the Khazars are interesting. I will go to Google and
get a time frame.

The other element that I'm only aware of, but may also be significant is the
"Silk Road" - the caravan trail from Northern Europe to the Orient.

I read somewhere that there were numbers of Jewish traders on those
caravans, and that the Road came close enough to Czernowitz that when it
reached that point, the Jewish traders would go into the city to be welcomed
by their fellow Jews and be given kosher meals and perhaps a real bed for a
night. This highway from the North through the Ottoman Empire and the Orient
may well have had results other than trading goods.

I remember looking briefly, but I could not find anything about the social
effects of the contacts. Perhaps there is nothing except guessing, but today
we see many other interminglings having had astounding consequences. All
that said, it seems implausible to me that the traders remained isolated
from the societies they travelled through and to and vice versa.

Bob

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fleming
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 3:27 PM
To: 'Hedwig Brenner'; 'alexander rosner'; Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu
Subject: RE: [Cz-L] Our Origins

Hedwig....if you go to Google and click on "Khazars" and then go down to the
section on "Genetic Studies of Ashkenazi Jews" you will find the latest
evidence that we have a Middle Eastern common ancestry,and no evidence of
Khazar etc input. Cornel

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