Khazar
Many ‘Sephardic’ Jews Aren’t Actually Sephardic
Many Jews living in Israel, North America and Western Europe believe some of their ancestors spent the Middle Ages in Spain — and it’s simply not true
The Khazarian hypothesis is not the only junk science origin story of Jews
The Khazarian hypothesis is not the only junk science Jewish origin story. A similar myth has been propagated about the Jews who lived in the Maghreb.
Ashkenazi Jews Are Not Khazars. Here’s The Proof.
Globally speaking, all arguments suggested by proponents of Khazarian theory are either highly speculative or simply wrong.
How 23andMe Fell For Anti-Semitic ‘Khazar’ Canard
Marketing the sensational has always been a feature of 23andMe’s strategy that has gained it injunctions from regulatory bodies.
23andMe Backpedals On Khazar Theory But The ‘Alt-Right’ Eats It Up, Anyway
“I always rejected the Khazar theory. Perhaps there’s some truth to it,” Richard Spencer tweeted.
Why Did 23andMe Tell Ashkenazi Jews They Could Be Descended From Khazars?
That theory was debunked in a 2013 paper co-written by 30 geneticists from the United States, Russia, Israel and elsewhere.
Scholars Blast New Study Tracing Ashkenazi Jews to Khazars of Ancient Turkey
(JTA) — Prominent scholars of Jewish demography dismissed the findings of a newly published genetic study suggesting that today’s Ashkenazi Jews originate from converts to Judaism in what today is Turkey. Titled “Localizing Ashkenazic Jews to primeval villages in the ancient Iranian lands of Ashkenaz,” the study by the University of Sheffield geneticist Eran Elhaik…
Why Ashkenazi Jews Are Not Descended From Khazars — and What It Means
Are today’s Ashkenazi Jews descended from a central Asian people called the Khazars? A historian says no — and explains why that matters in the ‘are Jews a race?’ debate.
What 'Jews a Race' Debate Means for Israel
Are Jews a race — and if so from where? Jarrod Tanny explains why the answer to these explosive questions says less about Israel and Zionism than many may think.
