Di Royte Yidn

Di Royte Yidn (The Red Jews) is the Yiddish term for Magog who behead Edom to redeem the Descendants of Apostates ("Lost Sheep" of Israel). It is said they will return to alliance with Judaism as Yidelekh just before preventing the end of the world by slaying Gog. They bring the Torat Edom for Gog's salvation. They have been identified as removing the Esav-like Gog (head of 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 ruled 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. But 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 Gog's 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.

See also Magog