[gothic-l] Gothic, Yiddish and High German

[Tore Gannholm]

Hi,
If your theory is right there must have been an exodus of Jews from the 
Rhineland during the Crusades.
Is there any evidence?
On the other hand Khazar is documented a Jewish converted state. Also 
documented imported rabbis.

Tore

On Apr 30, 2005, at 2:14 AM, Debbie Williams wrote:

> Hmmmmmmm I've never heard of that connection. If you find out let me 
> know.
>
>  macmaster at riseup.net wrote:Hi all,
>  I am curious if anyone knows anything about the Yiddish language and 
> its
>  possible ties to Gothic.
>  While the conventional model of the origins of Yiddish has it being
>  brought to eastern and central Europe from the Rhineland roughly at 
> the
>  time of the Crusades and makes it a medieval Rhenish dialect, an
>  acquaintance of mine asserts that the Yiddish language has more in 
> common
>  (in grammar, morphology, vocabulary, etc) with the East Germanic 
> languages
>  of the early middle ages than with the German of the Rhine.
>  Not reading Hebrew and knowing less than "ein bissel Yiddishe", I 
> can't
>  judge his hypothesis.  Maybe someone knows more and can speak on this?
>
>  thanks,
>  Tom MacMaster
>
>
>
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