01-18-2008, 01:51 PM
Shlama,
I've got a friend whose transcribing the book into text so it can go online in html format for easier reading. After he gets it complete, I'll break it up into chapters and maybe have my webmaster put a search engine on it so it can be searchable.
This is a great book!
Here's a quote from the book:
"On the opposite banks of the Haber the whole country to Adiabene and Halah is more or less settled by Nestorians, and they were formerlly even more numerous than at present. In the region of the Habor, a larger portion of the ten tribes appear to have remained unconverted to Christianity than in any other place. Still their number is inconsiderable; perhaps not more than five or six hundred households. But it is remarkable that the greater part of these reside in the Habor, or, rather, on an island in that river, in the ancient town of Zacho."
Ancestors on my father's side of the family were from Zacho and moved into other areas with Assyrian. At some point in time my family took up refuge with Assyrians, namely the Nochiya. Jews from Zacho speak a slightly different Aramaic (Judeo-Aramaic, which is a neo-Aramaic dialect), very similar to Christian Aramaic but some of the words are different to keep them separate, as Jews from Zacho and the general area say. Unfortunately, many Jews from Zacho are referred to as "Kurds" <!-- s:angry: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/angry.gif" alt=":angry:" title="Angry" /><!-- s:angry: --> which is entirely inaccurate. My great grandfather speaks of a certain "qasha" in his journals who never made him "reform our tradition and tongue" (i.e., change his faith and dialect) and "encouraged us to preserve it in whole for generations to come." Amen!
I've got a friend whose transcribing the book into text so it can go online in html format for easier reading. After he gets it complete, I'll break it up into chapters and maybe have my webmaster put a search engine on it so it can be searchable.
This is a great book!
Here's a quote from the book:
"On the opposite banks of the Haber the whole country to Adiabene and Halah is more or less settled by Nestorians, and they were formerlly even more numerous than at present. In the region of the Habor, a larger portion of the ten tribes appear to have remained unconverted to Christianity than in any other place. Still their number is inconsiderable; perhaps not more than five or six hundred households. But it is remarkable that the greater part of these reside in the Habor, or, rather, on an island in that river, in the ancient town of Zacho."
Ancestors on my father's side of the family were from Zacho and moved into other areas with Assyrian. At some point in time my family took up refuge with Assyrians, namely the Nochiya. Jews from Zacho speak a slightly different Aramaic (Judeo-Aramaic, which is a neo-Aramaic dialect), very similar to Christian Aramaic but some of the words are different to keep them separate, as Jews from Zacho and the general area say. Unfortunately, many Jews from Zacho are referred to as "Kurds" <!-- s:angry: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/angry.gif" alt=":angry:" title="Angry" /><!-- s:angry: --> which is entirely inaccurate. My great grandfather speaks of a certain "qasha" in his journals who never made him "reform our tradition and tongue" (i.e., change his faith and dialect) and "encouraged us to preserve it in whole for generations to come." Amen!