Re: [Cz-L] Our Origins

The Silk road had its start on the East coast of the Mediterranean.
 There were feeders from Europe by ships from Constantinopole ,
  Venice and more . Routes leading to these ports were not the Silk Road.
  Silk Road was not a Jewish enterprise.
   At its beginning Czernowitz was a trading station on the banks of the
Prut.
  A few shacks for tax levying and ferry terminal.
   Jewish observant traders stayed over Shabbat .
    Then they brought their families.
     The ,later ,they moved up to the Ham to what later became
     the Judenstadt.

Hardy
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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_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 7:31 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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