uighur-l Thoughts on Recent events

Uighur-L email forum ^ | Sept 17, 2002 | Turdi Ghoja

[rmlew]

According to family history, I am descended from Khazar nobles who converted to Judaism. In High School, I decided to do a research paper on them after taking a course in Russian history.

If you want to see a very breif history of the steppe peoples, check out http://www.geocities.com/kaganate/

[liberallarry]

Thanks for the link.

I know about the Khazars (I didn't know about a lot of the other groups you mentioned). Do you look any different than the Askenazism? I never met anyone who could trace his history back that far - except a Chinese Jew descended from a group of Persian Jews who emigrated to China in the 800s(?), invited there by a Chinese noble to show the Chinese how to dye cotton (due to a shortage of silk). He looked Chinese.

[Gangchen_gonpo]

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