Day Brown wrote:
> fkasner wrote:
>> There is no compelling evidence that the Khayzars of the region between
>> the Black and Caspian Seas were ever largely Jewish in religion.
>> Although there is evidence that the group accepted Judaism so as not to
>> be allied mostly with the Christian north of Islamic south that other
>> than their nobility was so affiliated. They were largely eventually
>> attacked and destroyed by the Christians to their north. Almost no
>> evidence that they became the Ashkenzic Jews of eastern Europe. The
fact
>> that the Ashkenazic Jews spoke Yiddish (a high german dialect) argues
>> against this idea.
> At the time, the Silk Road was in operation, with well established
routes
> for people to flee... without do***entation on where they came from, or
> where they went.
>
> And, at the time, there were terminals on the East end of the Black sea
that
> were called on by Vikings, who had another free market system of city
> states all the way up the rivers to the Baltic.
>
> DNA is prolly the best shot at sorting it all out, and even then, I
dunno.
> As for Yiddish, after 3 generations in the US, hardly anyone remembers
it;
> they all speak English now. And where did all those Ukrainian Jews come
> from? The Jews are pretty smart, having descended from long lines of
> merchants, many of whom chose not to return to the "holy Land" from
> Babylon, but go into business on the Silk Road. They voted with their
feet
> as time and necessity went on, like mercury. Put pressure on them at one
> point, and they squirt off in some other direction. And being smart,
pick
> up on new languages quickly.
>
> If you look at the Tocharian Frescos of merchants giving money to
Buddhist
> monks... they look like "Jews". Some with red hair and blue eyes, but
that
> snoz is unmistakeable.
>
Have you ever taken a good look at the faces of other semitic people?
Arabs could pass for Jews quite easily as could Jews pass for Arabs.
The nose is not significant. Nobody in my family had a particularly
prominent nose except for the enlargement that is common with aging.
FK
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