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Genetic, historical and scholarly sources repeated in current reporting show Ashkenazi Jews are a recognized Jewish ethnoreligious group with clear links to ancient Levantine/Jewish populations and a ...
The historical Khazar polity was a real medieval polity in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus, but there is no credible scholarly evidence that a transhistorical, secret “Khazarian Mafia” ever existed; r...
Claims that “Khazarians were bad people” rest almost entirely on modern conspiracy narratives and selective readings of medieval sources; mainstream historians describe the Khazars as a Turkic, mercan...
Archaeological evidence for Jewish communities in or adjacent to Khazaria is sparse and contested: notable finds cited include tombstones with menorah imprints in Kerch and the Taman peninsula, a draw...
Ashkenazi Jewish communities emerged in medieval Western Europe—first recorded in the Rhineland and northern France around the 10th century—and expanded eastward into Poland and other Slavic lands ove...
Multiple genetic studies find that many Jewish men—both Ashkenazi and Sephardi—carry Y‑chromosome haplogroups common in the Near East (notably J1/J2) while Ashkenazim show elevated levels of some Euro...
Recent excavations and publications since 2010 have not produced a definitive archaeological “smoking gun” for a mass Jewish population across Khazaria, but they have sharpened debate by adding more a...
The Khazar elite’s conversion to Judaism in the 8th–9th centuries served as a deliberate strategy to preserve between the expanding Islamic caliphates and the Byzantine Empire, producing both diplomat...
Scholars agree the Khazar polity (c. 7th–13th centuries) included an elite—and some communities—that adopted Judaism and that Khazaria acted as a major trade-state between Byzantium and the Islamic wo...