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Jewish Migrations from Germany to Poland:
the Rhineland Hypothesis Revisited

Jits van Straten1
Bennekom, Netherlands

By the sixteenth century there was already a substantial
Ashkenazi population residing in eastern Europe which spoke
Yiddish and followed Jewish rituals modeled on those of the
Jewish population of Germany. It has consequently been assumed
by many historians that eastern European Jewry originated in a
migration of Jews from Germany prior to that century fleeing the
pograms of the First Crusade, the pestilence of the Black Death,
or the expulsions of the fifteenth century. The author examines
the historical evidence for such migrations but concludes that no
major migration to Poland appears to have taken place as a result
of these three events.

http://www.mankindquarterly.org/samples/vanStratenJewishMigrations.pdf
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