Ashkenazim | Jewish Virtual Library
richards | October 5, 2015
The name Ashkenaz was applied in the Middle Ages to Jews living along the Rhine River in northern France and western Germany.
richards | October 5, 2015
The name Ashkenaz was applied in the Middle Ages to Jews living along the Rhine River in northern France and western Germany.
richards | October 4, 2015
Armenia Psalter world map, circa 1260 Gog and Magog are placed in the region of Russia or Mongolia While the branches stemming from the families that produced Mithraism, namely the House of Commagene, of Herod, Emesa, and the Claudio-Julian line, would produce the leading families of Europe, through the intermarriage of the Saxons and the descendants of Charlemagne, these bloodlines would receive another important infusion during the Crusades. It was the intermarriage, through that pivotal period, of this Mithraic bloodline with the various aristocratic houses of Armenia, and related branches of Eastern European aristocracies, of Poland, Bulgaria and Hungary, descended from the enigmatic Khazars of southern Russia, that would ignite the activities of occult organizations, all notoriously associated with the Holy Grail, and whose most feared symbol was the skull and crossbones. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, written in the ninth century AD, begins by saying that the Britons, like the Saxons, came from Armenia and the Picts of Scotland from the south of Scythia.
richards | October 3, 2015
Ashkenazi Jews, that is, those Jews of Eastern European origin, constitute more than 80 percent of all world Jewry. The early founders of the Ashkenazi community made their way to Europe during Roman rule, but the majority of the founders of the population came more recently from the region of present day Israel, moved to Spain, France, and Italy, and then in the 10th century into the Rhineland valley in Germany. It is estimated that prior to 1096, the first Crusade, the entire Jewish population of Germany comprised 20,000 people
richards | September 20, 2015
Mr. Texe Marrs reports on the definitive new DNA study by Dr. Eran Elhaik of the prestigious Johns Hopkins Medical University, reported in the Oxford Press and in The Journal of Molecular Biology and Evolution.
richards | September 10, 2015
There are considerable differences between the Lithuanian, Polish (also known as Galician), Hungarian, and German pronunciations. These are most obvious in the treatment of lam: the German pronunciation is [au], the Galician/Polish pronunciation is [oi], the Hungarian is [i], and the Lithuanian pronunciation is [ei]
richards | September 8, 2015
ASHKENAZI Genealogy This is an open forum to discuss the origin, the meaning and the family stories of the surname ASHKENAZI. Both your knowledge and the oral tradition of the origin and meaning of this surname will be helpfull
richards | September 5, 2015
Members of the Jewish community who trace their roots to Central or Eastern Europe are known as Ashkenazi Jews. Although today members of this community are found around the world, Ashkenazi Jews for centuries were a geographically isolated population.
richards | September 5, 2015
Ashkenazi Jewish Genetic Diseases: 19 Disease Panel Ashkenazi Jewish Genetic Diseases: 38 Disease Panel Sephardic/Mizrahi Jewish Genetic Diseases There are a numberof genetic disease for which persons of Jewish heritage (at least one grandparent) are more likely to be carriers of than the general population. Carriers are healthy individuals, unaffected by the disease for which they carry
richards | September 5, 2015
The Origins of Sephardim and Ashkenazim Two Sephardic Jews with an Ashkenazi in Jerusalem, 1895 The two main pillars on which all of Jewish scholarship rests are Rashi and the Rambam (a/k/a Maimonides). They differed not only on issues of philosophy but in overall style and approach. Part of the reason for this is that Rashi was Ashkenazi and the Rambam was Sephardi.
richards | September 3, 2015
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