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Originally posted by Mike111:
[QB] Eleazar of Worms
Title: Haggadah for Passover (the 'Ashkenazi Haggadah'), German rite with the commentary of Eleazar of Worms
Origin: Germany, S. (Ulm?)
Date: 3rd quarter of the 15th century, c. 1460
Language: Hebrew
Script: Ashkenazi square and Ashkenazi semi-cursive script, main text punctuated, commentary not punctuated
Scribe: Meir Jaffe (for attribution see, Glatzer, 1991, pp. 140-41)
Artists: Joel ben Simeon Feibush

Form: Parchment codex
Provenance: Joel ben Simeon Feibush, illuminator: inscribed with his name in the colophon: 'My heart counsels me to reply to him who asks and says, who painted these [pages]? I shall answer him: I am he, Feibush, called Joel. For Jacob Mattathias, may he live long, the son of MHRZ, a pious man' ( f. 48v).
R. Jacob Mattathias, first owner: mentioned in the colophon (f. 48).
Purchased by Payne & Foss, April 1844: inscribed (f. [51]).

The Haggadah (Hebrew: "telling") is a Jewish text that sets forth the order of the Passover Seder. Reading the Haggadah at the Seder table is a fulfillment of the Scriptural commandment to each Jew to "tell your son" of the Jewish liberation from slavery in Egypt as described in the Book of Exodus in the Torah. ("And thou shalt tell thy son in that day, saying: It is because of that which the LORD did for me when I came forth out of Egypt).

Khazars – were an ancient Turkic people who appeared in Transcaucasia, {the transitional region between Europe and Asia, extending from the Greater Caucasus to the Turkish and Iranian borders, between the Black and Caspian seas.} in the 2nd cent. A.D, and subsequently settled in the lower Volga region. They emerged as a force in the 7th century and rose to great power. By the 8th century the Khazar empire extended from the northern shores of the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea to the Urals and as far westward as Kiev. Also in the 8th Century, the Khazars converted to the Hebrew religion and made Judaism the State religion. “Itil” the Khazar capital in the Volga delta, was a great commercial center. The Khazar Empire fell, when Sviatoslav, duke of Kiev (945–72), son of Igor and of St. Olga, defeated its army in 965 A.D. After the fall of Khazaria many Khazar's dispersed to northern Europe, mainly Germany and Poland. The Khazar's are the progenitors of European Jewry, the entomology of the term Jew or Jewish probably relates to these people.

Ashkenazi Jews, are the Jews descended from the medieval Jewish communities along the Rhine in Germany. Ashkenaz is the medieval Hebrew name for this region and thus for Germany. Thus, Ashkenazim or Ashkenazi Jews are literally "German Jews." Later, Jews from Western and Central Europe came to be called "Ashkenaz" because the main centers of Jewish learning were located in Germany.




This manuscript is noteworthy only in that it demonstrates - like many others - that White Europeans originally correctly saw themselves as racially different than the Hebrews. We continue to investigate why Whites made the choice to falsely take-on the identity of Hebrews and other Blacks.











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There are two studies about Rembrandt and the Jews. And in the second one the writer wonders were the portraits of all the rich Dutch Jews have disappeared to.
They were probably destroyed because Jews were very swarthy, right untill the WWII and beyond. Some even had classical African facial traits.
Perhaps they did not care for the fahsions to show blackskinned persons as whites.