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To: AK2004 who wrote (144329)	4/9/2002 5:43:14 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576589

Albert, Ashkenazi have traces of Khazar and European blood but they are very much semitic and the semitic features are obvious. I didn't want to get into the facial features, but since you started it, my first reaction to reding about Khazaria, and it's inhibitants being of Slavic and Turkish origin, was that it makes a lot of sense. I mentally played the faces of my Jewish frineds in my mind, and the connection to a combination of Slavic/Turkish is much stronger in my mind that that to the original semitic people. Joe

To: AK2004 who wrote (144329)	4/10/2002 1:36:09 AM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1576589

>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