RE: [Cz-L] Our Origins

Dear Joel,

Thanks. It’s fascinating to wonder if some tough old Jew with a scraggly
beard and a fur-brimmed hat from Lvov was there before Marco Polo.

Bob

From: bnhuitre18_at_aol.com [mailto:bnhuitre18_at_aol.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 5:17 PM
To: robert.burton_at_rogers.com
Subject: RE: [Cz-L] Our Origins

Bob ---
 
                       You're   definitely  right  on  at  least  one
point:   Many   of   those  that  the  Chinese  called  "Western traders" 
were,     in   fact,   Jewish.
 
                                           Joel   Margolis
                                           Chicago

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Burton <robert.burton_at_rogers.com>
To: 'cornel fleming' <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>; 'Hedwig Brenner'
<hedbren_at_zahav.net.il>; 'alexander rosner' <alexanderrosner_at_yahoo.de>;
Czernowitz-L <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Tue, Apr 24, 2012 12:34 pm
Subject: 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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