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  • From: Dgahler782 AT aol.com
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Language, migration and Jewish identity
  • Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 10:24:17 EDT

Shoshannah - this, too, may interest you. You probably heard the claim that
European Jews are actually descendants of the Khazars. Well, since Eastern
European Jews spoke the German-derived Yiddish they must have lived in and
then
migrated from West (German lands) to East (Poland). Had they been Khazars,
their migration would have been East to West and they would have spoken a
Turkic language or dialect with some Hebrew admixture. So the identification
of
European Jews with Khazars is easily refuted via language.
Doris Gahler



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