August 13, 2024January 23, 2026 by josephamyotpadjan

Coming next… Isaac Abulafia : Refugee of the Damascus Affair

Isaac Abulafia, my fourth great-grandfather, at the age of twelve, was a refugee of the infamous Damascus Affair, or Blood Libel, of 1840. This is the story of that tragedy, and of what became of Isaac.

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‘Once it is realized and understood that the Padjanaks were, in fact, the Kushans, a new understanding of the history of Europe, especially of Eastern Europe, will supplant the present one, and it will be easily understandable that a village in present-day Croatia is named after the greatest king of the Kushans. The migration of the Padjanaks (Kushans) and Kangar from Central Asia to Europe was not merely a migration of tribes; it was the migration of the descendants of the populace of an empire – the Kushan Empire.’ – Joseph Amyot Padjan