Re: Who was talking about Khazaria?

Hello,

> > Very very improbable. The Ashkenazi came anywhere near
> "Khazaria" only
> > after the First Divide of Poland.
>
>     According to this theory, the two groups met up in Poland
> and western Ukraine.
That's what I was referring to, actually.

> I can't remember off-hand, but there's evidence of new Jewish
> communities being founded in the tenth and eleventh centuries
> in that area, which would be consistant with the time frame.
Well, we have good evidence of Jews in Kiev as early as late 10th
century.

> So the European Jews didn't have
> to travel as far as Khazaria to meet the Khazarian Jews.
Well, anyway I'm positively sure the Khazaria Jews didn't play a
significant role in Ashkenazi ethnogenesis... One reason is because
there probably weren't too many people of Jewish faith among the
Khazarian lower classes.

Pavel
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