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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EWC3, post: 4595949, member: 93416&quot;]QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4594506, member: 110350&quot;] As I said before, of course, I don&#039;t really care one way or the other if it&#039;s ultimately proven that the Khazarian elite did, in fact, convert to Judaism.&nbsp; The much more important issue is the completely baseless attempt by certain people to establish a genetic connection between the Khazars and today&#039;s Ashkenazi Jews.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p><p>This thread began with a discussion of the widely reported conversion of the Khazars to Judaism. What I felt that initial comment missed was the matter brought out in the 1948 book by Rabinowitz. That in the Early Middle Ages Jews became important monetary experts in the Occident (much as Jains became monetary experts in India). This happened in the context of slotting into the gap between Islam and (Pagan) Scandinavia at Khazaria – but that was in no way unique - we also find them as the go-betweens in trade and diplomacy between Charlemagne and Harun. Operating as neutral players within what amounts to a period of religious Christian/Islamic cold war.</p><p><br /></p><p>This particularly interested me ever since I discovered that England had adopted Islamic weight standards for coinage in the early medieval period – and really the only way that could happen is on the advice of Jewish emissaries visiting the Carolingian court.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding your own input Donna</p><p><br /></p><p>1) I do not consider the matter of “genetic connections” to be “much more important” than considerations concerning the matters of medieval global macro-economics ……..matters that once fascinated Del Mar, Pirenne, Bolin, Rabinowitz, Watson……... (and still fascinates little old me)</p><p><br /></p><p>2) Interjecting&nbsp; hyperbolic and misleading statements about ‘genetic’ matters is a sure fire way to put a damper on historic global macro-economic discussion.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob T[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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