>Ashkenazi have traces of Khazar and European blood but they are very much semitic and the semitic features are obvious.
OK...can we please clear up this "Khazar" thing?
It's actually rooted in a Jewish legend... not really historically traceable:
So, in somewhere between the 7th and 9th centuries, AD, the Khazars were supposedly a pagan kingdom where the king decided he'd had enough of being a pagan, and invited representatives of all major religions to talk about their religions... he listened to all of them and decided to convert his kingdom to Judaism. As the legend has it, eventually these people all disappeared.
Now, first off, if this country ever existed, it was quite small, which is why there's no historical evidence of it. Secondly, there were plenty of Jews in Eastern Europe before that, so Ashkenazis, at least mostly, were not descended from the Khazars, if that were in fact the case at all.
Besides, I don't feel like the validity to the claims to the land is affected by the events much before last century, but then again, I'm not a religious person, nor do legends and religious scriptures mean much to me.
-Z |
