Ten Tribes Studies (23 February, 2014, 23 Adar-1, 5774)
1. Michelle Bowie: Remarks on Black Irish
2. Amish and Jews
3. Did Captive Jews from Spain Congregate in the American Southwest?
4. The Prophet Jeremiah:Â Beware of Harming Jerusalem, Judah, and Israel!
5. Research Extracts-29
Research Sources from Brit-Am Now nos. 1236-1275
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1. Michelle Bowie: Remarks on Black Irish
 Re: Brit-Am Now no. 2220. Ten Tribes Studies
Shalom Yair,
Regarding the comment about "black Irish". I had never heard of this before, but find it compelling to say the least. I know my mother's family was of Irish descent but are located in England. My mother had this olive skin and dark eyes and my deceased brother also had it. both sides of the family hail from GB. It is also interesting to note their affinity for things of Spanish influence and even a steady habit of vacationing in Spain. Perhaps there is something to this.
regards,
mb
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2. Amish and Jews
New comment on your video
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dudeinbluejeans
Yair,
I'd like to share with you some information about the Amish. First of all, they dress like Hasidic Jews. Their language is compatible to Yiddish, in fact one can speak yiddish to an Amish and he would understand. They name their children Levi, Jacob, Solomon, Israel, Joseph, Samuel...etc. My brother's name is Levi Jacob. My father's name is Ezra Israel, My grandfather's name is Israel Zook. Do you get the picture? Their Last names are, Zook, Yoder, Zimmerman, Kaufman, Schwarie, (Swarey) Bieler, (Byler) Schwartzendruber, Detweiler, Schrock. Isn't it a bit obvious?
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3. Did Captive Jews from Spain Congregate in the American Southwest?
'Crypto-Jews' In The Southwest Find Faith In A Shrouded Legacy
http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/02/19/275862633/crypto-jews-in-the-southwest-find-faith-in-a-shrouded-legacy
by Wyatt Orme
February 19, 2014 7:45 AM
Extracts:
There were the grandfathers who refused to eat pork and wore hats at Saturday church services, the grandmothers who lit candles on Friday nights. The sheep and cattle ranchers who slit the throats of their animals, drained the blood, removed the sciatic nerve and salted the meat. These kinds of stories aren't uncommon in the American Southwest.
When Jewish-Latino photographer Peter Svarzbein drove through Ruidoso, N.M., and stopped at Sonya Loya's shop, he was overwhelmed to find a collection of Judaica for sale in the small town off US-70. "It was fascinating and emotional," he says, "not something that fit with the Jewish narrative of my life." He began taking pictures. That evolved into a project documenting crypto-Jews in the region who were making the "transition back" to Judaism.
A Religion In Hiding
Spain, 1391: Anti-Semitic riots broke out across the Iberian Peninsula. Thousands of Jews were murdered; thousands more converted to Christianity, mostly by force. But even the converts were still targets. In the 15th century King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella feared that these Jews who converted to Christianity, conversos or Cristianos nuevos, continued to secretly adhere to Judaism. To root out and punish the crypto-Jews (crypto as in concealed, hidden) they established the Spanish Inquisition, whose first tribunals were established in 1480 in Seville.
In 1492, the practicing Jews who remained were officially expelled from Spain. Jews and crypto-Jews alike immigrated to Portugal and the Spanish colonies for new opportunity and more religious freedom. But the Inquisition spread to Portugal, then to the empire's farthest reaches: first Peru, then Mexico City.
Those who claim to be descendants of crypto-Jews, Â and the academics who support them, believe that converso populations sought refuge in what is now the border region between Texas and the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon.
When Sonya Loya learned about this legacy of crypto-Judaism, she was running a glass shop in the small mountain town of Ruidoso, N.M. She'd been raised Catholic, like her grandmother, but never felt much sense of belonging. When she was 18, her priest told her not to come back.
But something else was in order for her. "I had the courage to keep asking questions until I had my answers," she remembers.
Years later, a friend invited her to a gathering of Messianic Jews near Santa Fe, and it was there she witnessed her first Sabbath service. Seeing other Hispanics wearing yarmulkes and reading Hebrew stirred her curiosity unlike anything had before.
"I walked away from that weekend with a few tools in my hand to continue my journey," she says.
A woman at the gathering explained the history of the crypto-Jews to Loya and encouraged her to look into her genealogy. After learning online her ancestors may have been Sephardic Jews, some of whom were persecuted by the Inquisition, she began teaching herself Hebrew and studying Torah.
Legitimacy Of The Legacy
She wasn't aware of it at the time, but the "crypto-Jewish" identity in the Southwest has been the subject of heated controversy. In 1981, New Mexico's newly appointed state historian, Stanley Hordes, began work in Santa Fe and immediately began receiving visitors in search of family records, believing themselves to be the descendants of conversos.
He began tracing through the state's archives and Inquisition records. He discovered genealogical links between families in the Southwest with vestigial Jewish traditions and victims of the Inquisition in Mexico, Portugal and Spain.
"The biggest challenge in completing a study of this kind was determining the history of a group of people who for centuries tried desperately to cover their tracks ..." Hordes writes in the introduction to his book, To the End of the Earth.
His findings became popular in the Southwest, but many remained skeptical. Folklorist and Case Western Reserve University lecturer Judith Neulander has concluded that the "folk evidence" of a crypto-Jewish survival in the Southwest - six-pointed stars on tombstones, supposedly kosher practices - is inadequate.
Many of those traditions, she said, could as easily have come from a separatist sect of Seventh-day Adventists in the area, whose practices were notably more Hebraic than other forms of Protestantism. The crypto-Jewish identity, she argued, could instead be an origin myth Hispanics in New Mexico appropriated in lieu of one previously debunked - that they were the descendants of conquistadors.
"People will reconstruct the past in the way of the greatest social benefit to their communities," Neulander says.
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4. The Prophet Jeremiah:Â Beware of Harming Jerusalem, Judah, and Israel!
Jeremiah 2:
2 Â Go and cry in the hearing of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says the Lord:
I remember you,
The kindness of your youth,
The love of your betrothal,
When you went after Me in the wilderness,
In a land not sown.
3 Israel was holiness to the Lord,
The firstfruits of His increase.
All that devour him will offend;
Disaster will come upon them, says the Lord.
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5. Research Extracts-29
Research Sources from Brit-Am Now nos. 1236-1275
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/secular/extracts29.html
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