[Sca-cooks] Fw: [khazaria-announce] Khazaria.com News - July 25, 2003- OT

[Phlip]

Because I know we have quite a few Jewish folk on the List, I'm fwding this
along. As some of you may know, I'm very interested in the Khazars because
of their relation to my persona studies (they were developing as a culture,
while I'm working as a travelling blacksmith amongst them). While most of
what Kevin is finding is too late in period to be of direct assistance to my
research, there's a lot that isn't, and he's a very nice guy, who has been
very helpful in answering direct questions- including quite a few on
available foodstuffs.

So, enjoy, anyone, who has an interest.

Phlip

"When in doubt, heat it up and hit it with a hammer."
 Blacksmith's credo.

 If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
cat.

Never a horse that cain't be rode,
And never a rider who cain't be throwed....

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> KHAZARIA.COM NEWS
> The International Email Newsletter of Khazar Studies
> Editor: Kevin Alan Brook
> July 25, 2003
>
> My latest article, "The Origins of East European Jews", is now in print.
> It is contained in the Spring-Summer 2003 issue (volume 30, numbers 1-2)
> of the academic journal Russian History/Histoire Russe, on pages 1 to 22.
> This fully-sourced, comprehensive, and up-to-date article is essential
> reading for anyone interested in the subject of Ashkenazi Jewish origins,
> whether for personal interest or research or teaching purposes.
>
> The structure of the article is as follows:
>
> I. Introduction of the problem
>
> II. Documentary evidence -- covers issues like the extent of the
> conversion of Khazars to Judaism according to surviving chronicles and
> written evidence for the resettlement of German and Czech Jews in Poland
>
> III. Onomastic evidence -- evaluates the names of Jews on the Kievan
> Letter, Slavic and Germanic names of early Jews in Lithuania and Belarus,
> and surnames of East Ashkenazi Jews
>
> IV. Genetic evidence -- presents the latest data from studies of Jews' Y
> DNA, mtDNA, and genetic diseases
>
> V. Linguistic evidence -- discusses the origins of the Yiddish language
> and reasons for its eventual dominance among East European Jewish
> communities
>
> VI. Archaeological evidence -- provides data on known artifacts of
> Khazarian Jews and tombstones of East European Jews
>
> VII. Architectural evidence -- provides examples of synagogue
> architectural designs in Eastern Europe that derived from Germany and
> Spain and debunks the claim that Polish wooden synagogues were
> Khazar-styled
>
> VIII. Conclusions -- I'll quote this section, since it summarizes the
> findings in the article: "When the existing evidence is considered in its
> entirety, it becomes clear that East European Jews are descended both
> from the Jews of the ancient Middle East and from non-Jewish peoples, with
> the Israelite component predominating.  The story of the Russian Jews,
> according to the most current data, is that of Central European Jews who
> migrated eastward and joined with the existing (and apparently smaller)
> Jewish communities of the east, including the East Slavic-speaking Jews.
> The major periods of immigration included the 13th-15th centuries for mass
> migration from Central Europe into Poland and the 15th-17th centuries for
> the movement of western Jews further east into today's Belarus and
> Lithuania.  The composition of the Central European Jewish component is
> not entirely Rhenish, as had been alleged in most 20th-century
> scholarship; although many Rhenish Jews did in fact eventually settle in
> Eastern Europe, Russian Jewry also includes very substantial origins in
> Bohemia, Moravia, southeastern Germany (including Bavaria), Austria, and
> eastern Germany.  As for the Khazarian Jews, Iraqi Jews, and Byzantine
> Jews, the degree of their impact, if any, upon the demography of Russian
> Jews is still uncertain.  Finally, over the past two thousand years, it
> appears that more non-Jewish women than men converted to Judaism and
> joined Jewish communities in Europe."
>
> Printed copies of the article can be made upon request.  Please contact me
> at kbrook at khazaria.com if you want a copy, and I'll provide it for only
> the cost of photocopying and shipping.  (I can accept postal money orders
> and checks drawn on U.S. funds.)  Eventually the article will also be
> obtainable through the interlibrary loan system.
>
> Kevin Alan Brook
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