Safranim- WOndering if any of you can help me. One of our researchers is interested in articles relating to Albert Harkavy and his theory that Eastern European Jews originated in Babylonia. The researcher can only read English.
The only thing that we have found is a few sentences in EJ "Harkavy claimed that the Jewish community in Russia was formed by Jews who migrated from the region of the Black Sea and Caucasia, where their ancestors had settled after the Assyrian and Babylonian exiles. These people, who preserved an ancient Jewish heritage, which they spread among the *Khazars<http://go.galegroup.com/ps/retrieve.do?inPS=true&prodId=GVRL&userGroupName=uclosangeles&tabID=T003&searchId=R1&searchType=AdvancedSearchForm&contentSet=GALE&docId=GALE%7CCX2587511089> , expanded through the Khazar kingdom westward to Czechoslovakia." Any other suggestions would be most appreciated. Thanks and Shabbat Shalom, David Hirsch David G. Hirsch Librarian for Middle Eastern Studies Charles Young Research Library UCLA Box 951575 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575 USA Tel: +1 310 825 2930 Fax: + 1 310 825 3777 efax: +1 707 313 7712 email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
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