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Talk:Stephenson:Neal:Quicksilver:86:Ashkenazi (Jeremy Bornstein)

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Jeremy? Please note that the article states: "... The Jewish community in England also changed in the 1700s. It had been primarily Sephardi throughout the 1600s, but it became more Ashkenazi in culture as growing numbers of German and Polish Jews arrived. ..."

∴ Odds are good that we had a Separdic1 Jew prism salesman. Cromwell's freeing the parishes from a central authority allowed Jews as Jews back into England proper. Even though the man claimed to be from Poland -- he may not want two feckless youths to know his origins ...

Jewish Encyclopedia - (This website contains the complete contents of the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia, which was originally published between 1901-1906. The Jewish Encyclopedia, which recently became part of the public domain, contains over 15,000 articles and illustrations) - is a resource we can use if we stay alert to its limitations.

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  1. Sephardic] Jewish youths also were most likely to among Christoper Columbus' crew on his first voyage due to a rather nasty deadline from the Spanish Inquisition which was purging the multicultural society of what had been Muslim Spain in 1492.

more soon Sparky 19:36, 2 Nov 2003 (PST)