"The Jews of Khazaria" by Kevin Alan Broo

Hello, I'm wondering if anyone has read the book The Jews of Khazaria by Kevin Alan Brook.  I was initially excited to find a book at the public library on this relatively obscure topic, but I'm starting to wonder how credible it is since the author breezes through a lot of claims without really backing them up..

Yes Arthur Koestler is right about the origin of the so called "jews", in his other book "The 13th tribe" he goes in detail about their origins, he said that the jews are converts and not true jews.....In fact there is no such thing as a Jew, being that their is no use of the J in the Hebrew language..... But the point is their not Jews, not Hebrews, and not Israelites just Khazarian converts.


According to both the early-20th-century popular historian H.G.Wells and the Hungarian-Jewish intellectual and author Arthur Koestler, amongst numerous others, the people known today as Jews are primarily the descendents of a Turkish tribe known as the Khazars. The Khazars have no historical connection to Palestine. They converted to Judaism between 620 and 740AD, and have no genetic connection to biblical Israel, and hence to the narratives of the Bible and the "Holy Land". Koestler actually devoted an entire book called The Thirteenth Tribe (1976) to the fact that the Jews of eastern European origin, who are known as the Ashkenazi Jews and who make up about 95% of the Jewish population of today, are of Khazar origin. In other words � virtually all of the Jews of the modern world have no Hebrew ancestry, and no ancient connection with Palestine.


Much old documentary evidence exists on the subject of the Khazars dating from the ninth and tenth centuries and earlier � from Arab, Byzantine, Hebrew, Russian and other sources. The conversion of the Khazars to Judaism is described in the so-called 'Khazar Correspondence' dating from the tenth century between Hasdai Ibn Shaprut, the Jewish chief minister of the Caliph of Cordoba in Spain, and Joseph, the king of the Khazars. In this the king traces the ancestry of his people not to Shem, father of the Semites, but to Japheth, Noah's third son. The Book of Genesis (10:2,3) itself also describes Ashkenaz as a descendent of Japheth, rather than Shem. In other words, the Jews are not a Semitic people, but their contempt for the Arab world and their bitter and violent war of dispossession against the Palestinian Arabs could be termed anti-Semitic.


And it makes sense on why the Europeans are not the real  Israelites, because if you read the curses in the old testament(which is the only reliable biblical source) you will know who the true children of Israel are.....


Edited by YEMENI_CRICKET - 06-May-2007 at 13:27

As far as I know Judaism is a religion not a race, so does it matter if somebody doesn't have mostly Hebrew genetics? is there even such a thing?

OK, well I personally think that some Ashkenazic Jews might have *some* Khazar lineage.. But they probably have just as much (proto-)French, (proto-)Italian, Russian, German, etc blood from their travels across the continent.  I don't think it's enough to make a big point out of it.

I read it. It is a well written and researched book without bullcrap. I recomend it. It is a good read.

If a person today speaks Hebrew, Ivrit, if he shares all the cultural-religional stuff, and if he thinks he is a Jew, I believe he is a Jew.

THE ASHKENAZI JEWS NO TURKS....AND NO KHAZARIAN YOU CAN SEE IN WIKIPEDIA ASHKENAZI JEWS SEMITIC ETHNICLY LIKE KURDS AND THEY DNA CHECK PROVED. THEY NOT HAVED ANY CONECT OF LANGUAGE CULTUR OR DIFRENTE CONECT .THE HISTORY ABOUT THE KHAZAR BEING  MANY FALSEHOOD AND POLITICAL POSITION REGRETTABLY.

Greetings all

To Dan:

While you showed the front cover of the 2nd edition, you seem to be discussing the 1st edition, since to my knowledge there is not yet a Canadian public library with the 2nd edition on the shelf.  Why are you judging the book based on the old edition?  The 2nd edition is a complete rewrite and fixed a lot of errors and gave more documentation for claims, while removing claims that turned out to be false.

I think your statement "the author breezes through a lot of claims without really backing them up", followed by a photo of the 2nd edition, is misleading, and ask you to retract or edit your false statement.  I assure you that if you read the 2nd edition you will no longer have the impression that you had when you read the 1st edition.

To Tavsan:

It has never been my view that the majority of European Jewish ancestry stems from Khazars, only that Khazars are one of several contributing elements. Genetic testing bears out the partial Khazarian and Central Asian ancestry of Ashkenazi Jews, but it is only partial. Koestler's book "The Thirteenth Tribe" is full of false assertions. H.G. Wells is not a reliable source on this issue either.

To Khazari:

Bulan's conversion to Judaism took place in the 9th century, not the 7th century. You're right that the Khazar kaganate was a diverse place, and that most of the population followed religions other than Judaism, but you are too dismissive of the impact of Judaism on the Khazars or on later Jewish populations.

Regarding DNA, what is your explanation for why some Ashkenazi Jewish men have the Y-DNA type Q-P36 (from Central Asia) and R1a1 (from eastern Europe)? And how do you explain the existence of Slavic-speaking Jews in eastern European cities like Brest, Kiev, and Grodno prior to the arrival of Yiddish-speaking Jews?

A few Karay Jews have been genetically tested too, and many of them have Middle Eastern types, while one so far has Q. Further testing may prove that Karay Jews are a mix of Israelite and Turkic.


Edited by khazaria - 03-Sep-2007 at 05:53

Originally posted by Bulldog As far as I know Judaism is a religion not a race, so does it matter if somebody doesn't have mostly Hebrew genetics? is there even such a thing?

The Jews of Khazaria were Khazars who converted en mass to Judaism.