What's the name of the author and the book that claims that Ashkenazi Jews are converted Slavic tribe?

Question

IT would be interesting to read. Where can i find this book?

i think this theory is so stupid.

Answer 1

I believe it was Dr. Bozoh Munqad Qlown who wrote the respected tome entitled "Khazarei". (I recommend purchasing it if you are in need of a weighty doorstop.)

Steve Plaut covered this trend in his blog http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Blogs/...

"It is one of the great ironies of the 21st century that anti-Zionists and anti-Semites on both the Left and the Right, have returned to racialist arguments against Jews that most of us thought had died out after World War II. Nearly every anti-Semitic and neo-n**i website denounces Zionists and Israelis as 'Khazars.'  Web chat lists in which Jews defending Israel are dismissed as 'Khazar usurpers' are too numerous to count. The racialism once again in vogue holds that Jews would only have legitimate claims to the right of self-determination in their homeland if they were appropriately Semitic from a racial point of view.   . .  .  Racial purity is suddenly the new basis for national rights."

Here are a plethora of books and theories on the topic.  http://www.khazaria.com/

The only one that I can recommend as a classic is Yehuda HaLevi's "The Kuzari". It's brilliant.

Answer 2

Arthur Koestler didn't envisage that his hypothesis (In "The Thirteenth Tribe") would be seized on by virulent anti-zionist/anti-semitic arabs to discredit Jewish claims to Israel, he actually wrote the book to defuse anti-semitism (by separating Ashkenazi Jews from the "Christ Killer" epithet).

Of course since his death in 1983 DNA studies have proven the link of Ashkenazi Jews with the Middle East and Sephardi Jews.

Answer 3

There are versions of this all over the web.  I keep running across it. Just do search khazar. Wiki also has bibliography of citations that list books. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khazar

They use it as most anti-semitic argument coupled with the Ashkenazi origin in Europe not really semitic therefore have no claim to Israel land.

It's ridiculous argument really.  Just another propaganda tactic. They try all sorts of methods attack whatever Jewish group they can trying to single us out and they've attacked all groups that I've seen.  So these are all really old arguments.

Explaining DNA evidence that Jewish people are anciently related and that converts while uncommon occur and are just as Jewish as anyone else blows their anti-semitic propaganda away.

I agree with you it's so stupid as only stupid people believe their arguments. I don't even think they believe their arguments themselves just hoping stupid people will believe them so they can continue the hate.  I think this is neo-n**i origin more than Muslim extremist. The  two have been allied before and now both groups use it.

Answer 4

The Khazars were a Turkic tribe that migrated to the steppes of what

   is today southern Russia and eastern Ukraine by the 5th century. They

   established a powerful kingdom that existed from the mid-7th century

   until the early-11th century. The Khazars had a two-king system,

   consisting of a military king (bek) and a sacral king (khaqan). The

   Khazar army, which took orders from the bek and the military commander

   (tarkhan), included tens of thousands of professional soldiers.

Arab travelogues provide useful contemporary details about the life of

   the Khazars. Armenian, Slavic, and Hebrew sources also form the core

   of our knowledge about the Khazar people. Important Hebrew primary

   sources are:

    1. The Khazar Correspondence between Khaqan Joseph and Hasdai ibn

       Shaprut of Spain, now known to be authentic.

    2. The Schechter Letter, found in the Cairo Genizah, an account of

       the conversion of Khazars to Judaism, the migration of Jews to

       Khazaria, and the military victories of the Khazars.

    3. The Kievan Letter, found in the Cairo Genizah, written by the

       Khazar Jews of Kiev in the early 10th century.

http://www.lebanese-forces.org/vbullet/s...

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/judaism/FAQ/07-...

http://www.khazaria.com/

Answer 5

I think you're talking about the theory that Ashkenazis descend from the Kazhars. I mainly hear this argument from white supremacists and neo-n***s as they think it invalidates the claims that Ashkenazis are "real jews", as in the "chosen people" the bible speaks about.

I am not aware of any evidence that all Ashkenazis do indeed descend from the Kazhars but it's irrelevant in the context the neo-n***s like to use it, because even if they do descend from them, a convert to judaism is as much a jew as someone born to it.

Answer 6

It is a silly theory, especially because it is used by the Arab world in order to discredit the Jewish claim to Israel.

Even if it were true that we are all converts to Judaism (a laughable thought), the Arab claim would still fail to be valid.

After all, they allow every Muslim to enter Mecca, even if she or he are recent converts, right?

Answer 7

It was written by a jew named Arthur Koestler in the late 70's; you can find the title by googling up his wiki bio. The theory is that Ashkenazi are remnants of the Khazarians,an 8-10th century Central Asian kingdom converted to Judaism. It did exist and it was jewish. DNA studies do however reflect that most ostjuden have slight traces of mideastern ancestry. Both Jews and Arabs make a great deal of this non-issue as to whether or not European jews are descendants of the ancient Hebrews because jews base their territorial claim on it; however such claims have no vaildity under international law. Hitler's annexation of the Czecholand in 1939 was based on the indisputable fact that it was originally dominated by ethnic Germans. It was; they built Prague University. However this makes no difference in modern terms. It is an irrelevancy whether or not contemporary jews are descended from ancient hebrews. It simply doesn't matter. If "ancestral" land claims are to be honored virtually every ethnic group on earth would have to relocated to their earliest known site of habitation. Human migration has been a constant,so much so that any such claim is irrelevant. In any event the palestinians were already there upon the hebrew arrival  - according to their own accounts - so in these terms they would have a tenable equal claim. It's all an absurdity. The Celts originally occupied what is now Austria, for example. Dislocations such as the Palestinian diaspora would be rampant if such ancestral-rights concepts are to be humored.

Have fun exploring this Hot Controversy.

Most of the world couldn't care less whether jews are descended from ancient hebrews.