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" The thirteenth tribe : "
Arthur Koestler.
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BL
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849034
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Koestler, Arthur,1905-1983.
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The thirteenth tribe : : the Khazar empire and its heritage /\ Arthur Koestler.
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San Pedro, California :: GSG & Associates,, [1976?]
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, ©1976
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255 pages :: illustration, map ;; 22 cm
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0945001428
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: 9780945001423
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-246) and index.
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Rise and fall of the Khazars. Rise ; Conversion ; Decline ; Fall -- The heritage. Exodus ; Where from? ; Cross-currents ; Race and myth -- Appendices. A note on spelling ; A note on sources ; The "Khazar Correspondence" ; Some implications : Israel and the Diaspora.
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Koestler advances the thesis that Ashkenazi Jews are not descended from the historical Israelites of antiquity, but from Khazars, a Turkic people originating in and populating an empire north of and between the Black Sea and Caspian Sea. Koestler's hypothesis is that the Khazars - who converted to Judaism in the 8th century - migrated westwards into current Eastern Europe (primarily Ukraine, Poland, Belarus, Lithuania, Hungary and Germany) in the 12th and 13th centuries when the Khazar Empire was collapsing.
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Khazars.
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Khazars.
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947/.9/01
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