Comments on: Almost Englishmen. Baghdadi Jews in Yangon https://allegralaboratory.net/review-almost-englishmen/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Wed, 04 Sep 2019 08:14:19 +0000 hourly 1 By: Peggy Wynn https://allegralaboratory.net/review-almost-englishmen/#comment-77460 Tue, 29 Mar 2016 02:01:57 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net//?p=5777#comment-77460 It is very interesting. My great greatfather was Yahudi who married my great great grandmother “Burmese” in Mandalay during King Mindon. He worked for Royal family and he spoke a few languages. After 1867, he and his wife left Mandalay. They came down to Monyo near Prome. He became a sort of merchant. He travelled to Mandalay and Monyo by boat. The last trip, he was killed and my grea greatgrandmother lost her husband and all money and whatever he belonged that trip. There was a lot of discrimination in those period. My grandmother had never said. All my neighbours were telling us, my grandmother and her family were not pure Burmese. Of course I knew that they were different. They were very fair skin and long noses and eyes. I finally asked my grandmother, she told me whatever she had heard from her grandmother. My grandmother and her sister lost their mother when they were young.
Two sisters were second generation, but Yahudi blood was still dominated. But their grandfather was very fair skin and their grandmother was dark skin. My grandmother had fair skin and she didn’t look like Burmese at all. But I forgot to ask my great great grandfather and I am not sure there was any relatives in Mandalay. My grand mother said he was a lone and he took his wife to Buddhist temples, but he was not Buddhist.
I am very interested if I could find any thing.

Kind regards
Peggy

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