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Title: Fact vs. Fiction
Review: Prof. Zuckerman appears to be ignorant, perhaps intentionally so, of certain concrete facts which render his hypotheses invalid. First, the father of William of Toulouse (aka Guillaume de Gellone) was the Burgundian Count Thierry (Theodoric) of Autun, who had no ancestral roots or ties to Southern France whatsoever and who was never the Count of Narbonne. Second, Makhir Natronai ben Habibi, the "Resh Galuta" or Exilarch of the Jews did not flee Baghdad nor arrive on French soil until 771, when Thierry of Autun was forty-one years old and his second son, William, was in his teen years. Could Prof. Zuckerman truly not be aware of these facts, or has he specifically chosen not to be aware of them?
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