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KHAZARS: entry from The New Encyclopedia Britannica Khazar, But the most striking characteristic of the Khazars was the apparent adoption of Judaism by the khagan and the greater part of the ruling class in about 740 [A.D.]. The circumstances of the conversion remain obscure, the depth of their adoption of Judaism difficult to assess; the fact itself, however, is undisputed and unparalleled in the history of central Eurasia. A few scholars have even asserted that teh Judaized Khazars were the remote [genetic] ancestors of many of the Jews of eastern Europe and Russia.

Excerpt: Outline of History, by H. G. Wells The main part of Jewry never was in Judea and had never come out of Judea. From Dr. Alfred M. Lilienthal's September 10, 1985 address to the Cornell Club of Washington DC: Many [modern-day Jews] of whom have clamored to go back [to Palestine] never has antecedents [physical ancestors] in that part of the world... The overwhelming majority of Jews are descendants from the converts of Khazaria and elsewhere who adopted Judaism.... This view of the non-ethnicity of the largest portion of Jewry is sustained by such prominent anthropologists as Ripley, Weissenberg, Hertz, Boas, Pittard, Fishberg, Mead and others. Excerpt: from [a Jew] Bernard Joseph Brown's book, "From Pharaoh to Hitler, 'What is a Jew?'": Being consciously Jewish is the lowest kind of chauvinism [excessive patriotism], for it is the only chauvinism that is based on false premises. All of the previous quotations are documented as true and historically accurate in the book, "The Thirteenth Tribe" by the Jewish author, Arthur Koestler, published in 1976. Please enjoy reading some of Mr. Koestler's admissions about the tru ancestry of today's Jewish people: ....genetically they [today's Jews] are more closely related to the Hun, Uigur and Magyar tribes than to the seed of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Should this turn out to be the case, then the term "anti-Semitism" would become void of meaning. The Khazars and their King are all Jews [not genetically, but rather by conversion to Judaism]....Some are of the opinion that Gog and Magog are the Khazars [Ezek. 38:1-9]. Joseph [one of the Khazar kings] then proceeds to provide a genealogy of his people. Though a fierce Jewish natinoalist, proud of wielding the "Sceptre of Judah," he cannot, and does not, claim for them Semetic descent; he traces their ancestry not to Shem, but to Noah's third son, Japheth; or more precisely to Japheth's grandson, Togarma, the ancestor of all Turkish tribes. According to the article "Statistics" in The Jewish Encyclopedia, in the sixteenth century the total Jewish population of the world amounted to about one million. This seems to indicate...that during the Middle Ages the majority of those who professed the Judaic faith [Judaism/Talmudiam] were [non-Semitic] Khazars. In this last chapter I have tried to show that the evidence from Anthropology concurs with history in refuting the popular belief in a Jewish race descended from a biblical tribe [the tribe of Judah]. ...the lingering influence of Judaism's racial historical message [that today's Jews are descended from Israel], though based on illusion, acts as a powerful emotional break by appealing to tribal loyalty...Abraham Poliak, a professor of history at Tel Aviv University and no doubt an Israeli patriot, made a major contribution to our knowledge of Jewry's [true non-Semitic] Khazar ancestry, undermining the legend of the Chosen Race. Random House advertised Mr. Keostler's book with the headline: "WHAT IF MOST JEWS AREN'T REALLY SEMITES AT ALL?"