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Title: The Thirteenth Tribe: The Khazar Empire and Its Heritage by Arthur Koestler ISBN: 0-394-40284-7 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 01 July, 1976 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $10.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.6 (25 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Interesting theory of the origin of East European Jews
Comment: It is curious that in Israel, where I am from, the Khazar's history is only briefly mentioned in school. We did study "letters to the Khazar" by Jehuda Halevi, but more as a literary piece that in context with the Khazars. That is the reason that the book was so interesting for me: It presents a theory which is quite unacceptable to the religious population in Israel. (and outside as well). Are all the eastern european Jews in essence converts? It makes the whole question, so much dealt with in Israel, of "who is a Jew" rather ironical. Are the religious Jews the "real" Jews? And how can they be so much against conversions to judaism, if they themselves are converts? Interesting! Of course, the theory the book presents that ALL the east european Jews are descendants of the Khazars is only a theory, but Koestler surely presents some interesting arguments! Fascinating reading!
Rating: 3
Summary: A thought-provoking essay on the nature of Jewishness
Comment: I am not a good enough historian to know whether the author's main thesis - that the Khazars converted to Judaism - is credible. What I thought more interesting was his comment that there might be no such thing as a Jewish "race" in any usual sense in which the word is used. He notes the awful irony of that in relation to the holocaust. This is definitely not an anti-semitic book, just one that takes an unconventional view - a trademark of Koestler's writing.
Rating: 1
Summary: a defamation text
Comment: This is actually an anti-simitic text that claims that Judaism is descended from the Khazars. One problem with this argument is that many Jews actually do resemble their arab and Simitic cousins in the middle east. Many Palistinians have fair, blond, features, but that doesn't mean they are not Arabs, it just means they intermingled with europeans crusaders. The reality is that the Khazars NEVER immigrated to Khazaria, they were whiped out by the mongols. Most of the tribes of the Caucuses were not emigratory tribes, like the armenians and Georgians and Chechens, they were sedintary and like the Khazars they weathered the storm of invasion. Unfortunatly the Khazars did not weather the storm very well and they disappeared, but they NEVER moved to europe and this book is full of hateful remarks and polemics against the Judiasm, very offensive.
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Title: History of Edom and Khazaria by Melchizedek Y. Lewis, Makeda Levi ISBN: 0966542606 Publisher: M. Y. L. Publisher Pub. Date: 01 April, 1989 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Jews of Khazaria by Kevin Alan Brook ISBN: 0765762129 Publisher: Jason Aronson Pub. Date: 01 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Wind of the Khazars by Marek Halter ISBN: 1592640281 Publisher: Toby Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Judaism's Strange Gods by Michael A. Hoffman II ISBN: 0970378408 Publisher: Independent History & Research Co Pub. Date: 30 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years (Pluto Middle Eastern Studies) by Israel Shahak ISBN: 0745308198 Publisher: Pluto Press (UK) Pub. Date: 01 December, 1994 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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