[lbo-talk] 2 fascinating talks by Prof. Shlomo Sand, (Tel Aviv U.) Thursday and Friday in NYC

[Shane Mage]

Koestler vindicated!
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>
>  PROFESSOR  SHLOMO  SAND,
> DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY,  UNIVERSITY  OF  TEL  AVIV,
> ON  HIS  NEWLY  TRANSLATED  BOOK,
> "THE  INVENTION  OF  THE  JEWISH  PEOPLE"
>
> Probably the biggest mass conversion took place in Khazaria, a  
> Turkamen empire between the Caspian and the Black Sea between the  
> 8th and 13th century A.D., which was finally destroyed by Mongol  
> invaders, with most of its Jewish population migrating west into  
> eastern Europe. Together with a somewhat later, smaller, more  
> prosperous and more cultured Jewish migration from Western Europe  
> through Germany, they became the future Jews of Poland, Russia,  
> Hungary, etc.

Shane Mage


> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos