[Stepan12]

LOL !!! Did you hear about the Jewish gay? He slept with women.

Uh uh.... I don't find the slaughter of my fellow Jews all that funny.

[Cronos]

He's making fun of the fact that you bring up a story from the 1200s whose veracity is strictly in question -- because you say these were "Cossacks" in the 1200s when that term didn't even arise until the 1600s. Next, you call them "Polish" -- yet they were themselves adamant in calling themselves distinct from Poles (whether they meant ethnically or in terms of class is open to debate)

Finally, face facts that Jews were a mobile, rich group of people who could have left (and DID leave) persecuting nations (as they did from France, England, Spain) -- and yet they came and stayed in Poland and PROSPERED. They called Poland "Polan" -- the blessed land.

Why did they stay? Because the stories of them being persecuted are just that, stories.

When the Tsarist pogroms happened in the 19th century, that started a wave of migrations to the USA. Why would they have stayed if the Poles were persecuting them over such a long period?