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To: Joe NYC who wrote (144666)	4/11/2002 4:47:19 AM
From: AK2004	Respond to of 1585178

Joe I have no problem with been 100%, who cares, but I did want for fun of it to figure out what happened to Khazars. Especially since so many people talk about it in US. The only thing that I remember hearing about Khazars is that prince Oleg, who united kiev's Russia, started the war against Khazars. I looked at cossacks in Russia because I recall vaguely someone telling me of Jewish origin and also because of the similar sounding names - Khazar and cossack. The reason why I tend to believe the cossacks version is that in the link that I posted earlier, cossack historians know of individual tribes, battles, negotiations and alliences that were built, broken, changed etc Then there were notes of which tribe evolve into what. There were no Jews mentioned at all, like they were never there and it is understandable because of the long anti-semitic tradition. It does not look like I am going to claim any Khazar blood, too bad, it started to give me a sense of identity :-)) -Albert ps cossack also have genetic traits like dark hair etc that are common to the southern area of river Volga - Khazars land

To: Joe NYC who wrote (144666)	4/11/2002 12:29:59 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1585178

Albert, Yaroslav, grandson of Oleg, conquered Khazars in 10th century. Which goes well with Khazars adopting Christianity at that time. So what it lead to is that Khazrs were converted to Jewdaism in 7th century but were reconverted into Christianity in 10th century. Maybe I should find the site where I read this (the site seemed somewhat anti-semitic), but the article said that Khazars where simply conquered by Slavic Russian tribes, who at the time were adopting Christianity, and lived under occupation ever since (or fled west). While under occupation, those who were of Jewish faith remained so, which is one of the reason they were persecuted. Others, who lived under Khazars but who were did not convert to Judaism just went the same way as most conquered tribes did, they blended with the conquerers, adopted their religion. Joe, I feel very good about encouraging you all to find out more about your heritage. No need to thank me though. ;~)) ted