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Ghost Dog

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6. Let me add that it seems both my Grandmothers

Reply to Behind the Aegis (Reply #4)

Sat Feb 26, 2022, 05:32 PM

Feb 2022

were born into Jewish families from somewhere in or near the Pale of Settlement, who would have emigrated in the 1880s to South Yorkshire, where coal-fired steam powered wool-weaving mills, in the North of England. Both married quite well, to gentiles. I felt always a certain sadness about them, though, as a child. There is no Jewish tradition in my immediate family now.

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(Jewish Group) Ukrainian Jews have thrived under democracy. I pray my ancestral country endures [View all] Behind the Aegis Feb 2022 OP

Do many Jews consider these and neighboring areas as ancestral lands Ghost Dog Feb 2022 #1

I am going to take this question as one of good faith. Behind the Aegis Feb 2022 #2

Thanks for the understanding. It's just history I'm interested in, respectfully, , Ghost Dog Feb 2022 #3

No problem. I am familiar with some of your posts, so I figured it was an honest question. Behind the Aegis Feb 2022 #4

Yep. I see there has been much turmoil in the region over the centuries, Ghost Dog Feb 2022 #5

Let me add that it seems both my Grandmothers Ghost Dog Feb 2022 #6

It's eerie and, for the moment, pleasantly surprising to see their emigration to Poland. OilemFirchen Feb 2022 #7