Show PUREST BLOODED JEWS ARE EXILES EX LE S highlanders High landers of the Cau caSis W who h 0 have kept free from admixture SCORN THE PLAINS PEOPLE their thai language and nd my many of 1 their came are m p peculiar as date data and amand of it settlement Sd Ht k in th that at big region unknown lord london of 0 all 11 the scattered tribes and reco remnants nants of the J jewish cri it recall people alicante none Is IB less known to the world at large and ad certainly tons none it presents a more a striking contrast to tin th common conception of it the millem ads children hf of israel thin than the jewish highlanders High landers of the east eastern C caucasus sus yet let there are probably none bole in all it the world who have kept the jewish blood more pure and tree free 1 from gentile ad admixture mu nor bar bay any who w ho have more mom faithfully pre served the traditions tradition beliefs belief and cu cua toma time of the times before the ustle exile indeed ind sit they held themselves if quite ta aloof 1 ref from the other office jews jens of at via the cas cau basua region refusing to with t them now 1 to clo worship hip with fill the thorn or even to have social or lit in ter course with fill hem film the limits limit azre of the barest st necessity no scottish kil highlander ever er scorned the I 1 T so a much as these thes highland so er jew jegg acorn the their kinsmen kamars ot of the plains and of the urban ghetto trail traditions tums fail to explain the date and the circumstances of if their heir settlement jn in the caucasus high lands bids are am unknown even in their own Ir traditions Ifill hill but i it 1 1 Is certain a 1 tam that hey have hao been there for a thousand years in that ti time s their physical characteristics ahnie hot been son materially modified by their cna Iron ment bud and m mode it of fi life IS aft with k characteristic jew ish fall faces and blavid complexion lia III ihly he have tall fail stalwart muscular bodies resembling seraf sem bling filbIg the best beat of the H hill III me men of india or some of the smut giant highland fiume mr era of scotland 0 it ad their life la Is of course purely rural mra 1 since ce they have no a on con lud emble tows towns and I 1 it they devote t them I 1 fi selves elves to agriculture a and it the grow growing ing of 01 grope grapes sad and tobacco from the grapes they make both wine nine and ad brandy an and it of I 1 these boels b beverages aage th they are hen Y drinkers indeed they ille have the a unenviable fidd reputation of list being the hardest it drinkers r like 1 in all 11 that part of th the world which might easily be since face the mohammedan tribes around them are similar almost entirely enil rely total abstainers abstain ers however dekea dk drunkenness ea Is little is know knonk among them if at ill all ahey are am at also I 1 a great fighters shat 1 la generally a of moun tallard find and in ID these highland jews jens it Is highly de developed loped chev go armed mi as do the M montenegrins Montene at serl Sg grins rl and ad are am never air backward b ilk our dai in using their tl camons capons for far defense they do not lot however share in any of ties lie blood flude of the birc mn tribesmen tribesman nor or do they join in their raids cable and door tell aels their language la is neither hebrew nor that of the country I 1 in which they uve live but bit rather that what till phil philologists term taral tartar or a all mingling of old per par alad A and nd tartar room from title this circum alan stance it Is inferred that their ances to tors went to the caucasus from pettus persia in the days of vms the great grant or darius perhaps they were fugitives lourn from croli captivity or else they ley preferred going to tile can caucasus Cauca sun rather than back bach to palestine time there 1 Is indeed a one dallant legend tell tells that they I 1 wandered antlered northward in aust of mount ararat and the remand remains of noih a ark rk the patriarchal mode made of life pre vails sells among them when a sou eon marries he does not as establish a ioma home of ablah his own HISsim pl builds lit a wing bit on hla him father s house bouse and ad live in it 1 in till ihli thin there ale 1 I often tit three or four generations 11 ting living in a single house which consists of a single story spread ad over moey large or area of ground d loch 11 house le has its own 1 of f fm land compra comprising dg gram field tobacco B slid field vegetable grden garden and effir vl nevard rd and aid ill all ire are kept 1 in a high state of cul cal tl ti though with primitive reeth ads each garden to Is within a wail of rubble ind tiny clay about six haaf feet fact high i times theae highland his liland tens IS ba have no rabbis end no religious they have base so no use anti no liturgy liters chev have see olf scroll of IS I 1 taw lot it 1 Is used I 1 for aire the I 1 sub sab bar imah it in hie I 1 strictest ric tese mosaic fashion doing DO an work and rd cooking M king no ac r food od idall all tied food it being cooked on OD the pt ceding n dat aliey Ss keep the pass 0 ivr not by enting unleavened bread v b bemuse us all 11 holl bread la is its un nn loaNa ned hot but b rating eating be an sink cited fiertl in n in ID the open air 11 th the ft feast of alb 1 ile is I 1 ba firl ob served 1111 old and they have a special ocre cere nally of their own at each ell new bw moon girl girls must arg be betrothed for far I 1 six before hot balch annu 1 the is bridegroom instead of lug B dowry III his bride must most pay her bar fit to a price lorle lot for her this int 1 Is 1 for in sheep cattle catti or hores haht but always its in 1 eight or some am multiple and quo thereof here th the price may be 18 alieen 1 P or head of cattle or if the it balde w broom in ird 18 rich it may be I 1 72 horses but u t lot for bome cone reason the R origin of which Is lout had 1 in antiquity the umber number must tha alunas be ciRl iteen or a multiple of eighteen there them 1 Is no an religious religion am mar rings ee but B cli emi 11 contract it j written bad and evened smal lien e a eh 18 be bom it 1 Is laid upon tite a ii platter r sprinkled prk ark I 1 d 0 with B salt I 1 it and ad ex 01 diddled to women go unveiled and rd speak oil to men be as I 1 freely I 1 as in west wait at ein lands imide A man Is I 1 py permitted to have ill as many as three those rd ches at 1 once a though by no a menna n all if of I 1 them boda avail rh th emphes entIla or of the lege dor divorce a Is ig seldom it if e eer practiced at it death aurb the hedv it I 1 I not hut bit is mere ly scrapped in a abroad suit and burled b while the women wall a tinge dirge one of the most curious of at all their tha enst riK tonis aids Is that it of it bailing the llie women of the household rooms which or are accessible it from the ile real 1 of 11 the house houe only flass through h semicircular holes at the bottom of if the wall not mom mere ill thin ill two ewt f cut alah for far all 11 the world like the lie clin alles to dog kennels illis ft hen a guest culls calls at a house bouse lie he 1 Is well welcomed mold in A spacious iOu reception room mom and aid then the host best gets do n on hands and knee and aid claw crawls Is through a hole in tile the wall 1 in search of h his I 1 w wife ie or sit athea ell as the case way uny be and pr pros polly comes am emitting craw ting back followed bv the ind indies of the household in the mine aaroe attitude the women dres in 11 jackets and loose lease trousers after to the oriental cannot fashion fablio |