Re: Who was talking about Khazaria?

On Saturday 26 October 2002 10:28 am, you wrote:
> On Oct/25/2002, Peter Clark wrote:
> >     "Ispamya" sounds a lot like "Hispanya," so I'm guessing those are
> > related terms. But what does "Sefarad" mean?
>
>         My 2 cents:
>
>         IIRC, Sefarad was one of the sons of some important character in
> jewish/christian mythology (Old Testament, I mean). Don't know who, but
> I'm pretty sure it's something like this :-)
>
>         The "sefardíes" ("Sefarad's people", I suppose) are the jews
> that were thrown out of Spain in 1492. They still speak a tongue that
> resembles very much the spanish of that era.
>
>         That are the only things I can say about this O:-)
The language is 'Ladino'

For the people who can read hebrew script, there's a Genesis Translation here:

http://rosettaproject.org:8080/live/search/showpages?ethnocode=SPJ&doctype=gen&version=1&scale=six