Di Royte Yidn
Di Royte Yidn (The Red Jews) is the Yiddish term for the Notzrim ("Lost Sheep" of Israel) of whom it is said many will return to alliance with Judaism as Yidelekh before bringing about the end of the world as Gog. They follow the Torat Edom and have been identified with the Esav-like Gog (Armilos) in Magog (Wonderland).
Wonderland lay beyond “the Mountains of Darkness” and the mythical Sambatyon River. The legend of the Royte Yidn was given several treatments in Eastern European Yiddish literature. One of the best known is I.L. Peretz’s novella “Three Weddings,” which begins:
“Far, far beyond the Mountains of Darkness, across the Sambatyon, is a country named Wonderland where the Royte Yidn live. In its capital, in the king’s royal estate of Faithstone, once stood a tall, white marble palace. With its hundreds of golden columns and thousands of diamond-bright windows, this palace was beautiful, as was the lush park that formed a sea of green around it.”
In the 1100s they were rules by a King Daniel but were also subject to Prester John's Kingdom of Kush.
In Yiddish folklore, di Royte Yidn were brave warriors who in days of need come to the rescue of their oppressed fellow Jews living under Christian and Muslim domination; they were not specifically associated with the Khazars, whose kingdom had been destroyed by the late 10th century, before Eastern European Jewry came into being. (It has been speculated that Jewish refugees from Khazaria were themselves partly responsible for Eastern European Jewry’s creation.)
Sadly, most of those loyal to the Traditional Judaic Authorities have practically vanished since their involvement in establishing the State of Israel.
Di Royte Yidn are associated with an Episcopal remnant of faithful Edomeans like Reuel, Jobe, Caleb, Ovadiyah and Antoninus.
