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ISRAEL UNDER THE CRESCENT |
SMILING KIRGHIZ AT THE DOOR OF THEIR TEMPORARY ABODE |
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| Despite the fact that they have suffered relatively little persecution, the Jews in Turkey are not among the best of their race. Many are descendants of those Jews called the Sephardim who came from Spain in the fifteenth century | Always on the move from pasture to pasture the nomadic Kirghiz cumber themselves with a minimum of household gear. They live in circular tents, in the summer built of kamish (reeds) covered with felt, and in winter often constructed of clay. Having no windows or chimneys, these huts are dark and filled with the pungent smoke from the burnt yaks' dung chiefly used as fuel |