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To: el_gaviero who wrote (16763)	11/25/2004 8:19:57 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

>> (In fact, what does the term Ashkenazi refer to?)<<< it refers to Benelux/German Jews who fled the inquisition in Spain after the fall of the Arabic Empire. From there Jews fled into Eastern Europe from Western Europe and also from today’s Persia Turkey and Iraq. I speculate that many Khazars married Jews from both geographic region and it will be difficult to sort it out. The story of the Khazar is indeed fascinating more so that those people had the wisdom no to ally themselves to each of the two major powers at the time Christianity Block and Islamic Block ( fordham.edu ) - they choose neutrality by trying to adopt Judaism and preaching to both superpowers that their religion has their roots in Judaism and by doing so freely trading with both superpowers. ccat.sas.upenn.edu The demise of the Khazar brought about the Cossacks who chose Christianity and later the fall of Byzantine to the Turks. The invasion of Ukraine by Poland converted many Ukrainians to Catholics. The story of the rise of the Rus is also not less fascinating IMHO and the “ethnic” Russians are a mixture of Vikings Slaves Bulgar Rus and with sprinkeled with other minorities like Armenians Tatars and Turks (Crimea has a big Tatar minority). It is important to note that during the times of the Khazar demise and the rise of the Rus, the big Crusades started moving trough Asia minor and Mediterranean Sea conquering the Holly Land and Jerusalem. fordham.edu Also about the same time the Kingdom of Almut in Persia started to gain power and influence and the first time that terror of suicide assassination was practice as a weapon to gain over your enemy and achieve economic and political goals fordham.edu