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No. That is an anti-Semitic canard and has been disproved through DNA analysis. The Khazars were a people in southern Russia whose small ruling class converted to Judaism (some 13 centuries ago) for trade reasons as well as for reasons of faith. At the time, there were already a few million Jews scattered throughout Europe and the Near East.
The Khazars were converts to Judaism, around 1200 years ago in the Crimea. Some scholars believe that only the ruling clique of the Khazars became Jewish while most of the populace did not.
There are those who make the allegation (in spite of impressive amounts of evidence to the contrary) that the Khazars formed the basis for European Jewry. This Anti-Semitic canard is alleged in an attempt to remove the Ashkenazi Jews' connection to the Middle East and therefore make the State of Israel illegitimate. However, DNA analysis of Jewish communities worldwide has debunked this myth.
It is unlikely. There was a Khazar kingdom in Central Asia, and there's evidence that the king and perhaps the nobility of this kingdom converted to Judaism some time vaguely around the year 800. Like other peoples in central Asia, the Khazars spoke a Turkic or perhaps Persian dialect. By that time, there were Jewish settlements dispersed across the northern Roman Empire from the Rhineland to Paris. Given that Yiddish is a Germanic language that also preserves several old French words and is peppered with Hebrew loan words, it seems far more likely that the vast majority of Ashkenazic Jews are descended from the Jewish community of the Rhineland. This community was decimated by the first Crusade, and many Jews fled east into Poland. Later wars in Poland pushed Jews farther east, and when Russia took over eastern Poland, Russia gained a large Jewish population. While there may be Khazars among them, but the most likely descendants of the Khazars are the Mountain Jews of the Ural Mountains. Their language is a Persian dialect, suggesting a solid connection.
The Khazar hypothesis seems quite popular these days with racists who want to deny the legitimacy of modern Jews -- as if conversion to Judaism makes someone less legitimately Jewish. In that case, King David and his descendants must not have been legitimately Jewish either because he was descended from Ruth, a Moabite convert. The Khazar hypothesis has nothing to do with the legitimacy of Israeli Jews, since the majority there is Sephardic and Mizrachi, descended from Jews who fled Arab lands.
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When was Dictionary of the Khazars created?
Dictionary of the Khazars was created in 1984.
Where do khazars live?
The Khazars (capitalized because it is the name of a people) lived in the kingdom of Khazaria in central Asia. Khazaria was east of the Ottoman empire, in an area where nomadic people dominated. As a result, the borders were fluid. You can think of all of the kingdoms of that region as confederations of tribes, where allegiance to a particular leadership depended on tribal membership and not on any hard and fast borders on the ground.But the question was: Where do they live? Khazaria was eventually crushed between the Rus (viking ancestors of Russia), Bizantium, and nomadic tribes to the west. There is linguistic evidence that the Mountain Jews of the Caucus Mountains may be the modern descendants of the Khazars, but no proof. There are modern racists who believe that all Ashkenazic Jews are Khazars, but there's no evidence of that at all and a huge mountain of historical and archaeological evidence showing that Ashkenazic Jews descend from Jews who settled the Rhineland around 1200 years ago.
Are Khazars related to Abraham in the bible?
No
Were the khazars successful when the embraced Jewish culture?
Yes, and no.
What other culture did khazars embrace?
they embraced the Jewish culture.
What other culture did the Khazars embrace?
they embraced the Jewish culture.
Did the khazars steal Judaism from black Hebrews?
No. The Khazars converted. Some researchers say that only the ruling class converted. So far not a lot of physical evidence of their kingdom has been found.
Oleg expelled the Khazars from Kiev near 880 then founded what?
Rurik
Who were the khazars?
The Khazars were a Turkic Empire in what is today southern Russia, around the Caspian Sea around the years 900-1000 CE. The elite of the Khazars converted to Judaism to trade more effectively with the Christians to the north and west and with the Muslims to the south and east. There are those who make the allegation (in spite of impressive amounts of evidence to the contrary) that the Khazars formed the basis for European Jewry. This Anti-Semitic canard is alleged in an attempt to remove the Jewish connection to the Middle East and therefore make the State of Israel illegitimate.
Why do Hebrew-Israelite Jews in America call themselves African-Americans?
Answer 1They don't. Jews do not identify as African-American, usually because they are Caucasian or Middle Eastern in complexion and originally of Middle-Eastern heritage (not African). When people refer to "Hebrew-Israelite Jews", they are referring to the Black Israelite Churches which are a Christian religion. See Answer 2, which discusses the views of this group.Answer 2According to the Black Israelite Churches, Ashkenazi, Khazars, and Sefardi Jews are not the true Jews they are Gentiles, and Edomites (descendants of Japeth, & Esau of the Bible), and they call themselves Jewish because they are not the original Jews. The Tribe of Judah Hebrew-Israelites are in fact the so-called African-Americans of today. The other Jews are the Tribe of Benjamin who are the Caribbeans such as Jamaicans, and Trinidadians, etc. All true Jews are in fact descendants of the Slaves during the Trans-Atlantic slave Ttade, not the Europeans that converted to the Jewish by religion which is why they don't call themselves Jews, but call themselves Jewish.[Comments Removed to Discussion Section]
Which kingdoms in Knights of Honor can unite?
Russia, Scotland, Serbia, England, Khazars -> Golden Horde
Where are the original Hamner mom and dad buried in Virginia?
Jews i tell ya!
