Adolf Hitler: Bringing the Legend to Life
"Uncover
the amazing story of one of the world’s
greatest leaders and most misunderstood
conquerors, Adolf Hitler. Learn how his empire forever changed the face
of the world,
and discover his legacy as both a ruthless warrior
and a revered statesman."
Can you see the double standard here? What ever happened to all that
tommy-rot about "never again" and "we must never forget"?
Before we continue, a crash course on Genghis Khan and his immediate successors is in order here. As
you read this excerpt, keep in mind that the people who suffered at the hands of Khan were real people - our Indo-European
ancestors - whose DNA we still carry.
Visualize, if you can, the unimaginable terror that these gentle people
must have felt as the mounted Mongol beasts rode
into their villages and cities - torching their homes, exterminating the
men, children and elderly; while riding off with
the prettiest fair maidens.
(Abridged, edited and illustrated by TomatoBubble.com)
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In
England, the herring
business had all but collapsed when buyers from
the Baltic just never showed up. Why? It seemed that there suddenly
were
fewer people left in the Slavic lands to buy the
catch–wiped out, some reported, by hideous horsemen appearing like
a whirlwind from the east.
People with dogs’ heads? Well, maybe not that, but they certainly behaved like wild dogs. They
usually left nothing alive, and in any case the stench of corpses made whole cities uninhabitable. Resistance
seemed useless. The princes of the Slavic people, then known as the Rus (Russians), reportedly had assembled the
greatest army in their history, but in a single battle these hard-riding devils wiped it out.
Kill
- Rape - Plunder - Enslave
Beyond them and beyond the lands east of Persia,
they left the storied cities of Samarkand and Bukhara in charred ruin. According to the works of the Iranian historian Rashid al-Din the Mongols killed more than 700,000 people in Merv and 1,000,000 in Nishapur.
No one knew where they might strike next, and they claimed that their destiny was to rule the whole world.
In
conquering Asia, the Mongols murdered untold
millions–a catastrophe of a magnitude never before
experienced. These disasters are attributable to the evil genius
of a single man, the tyrant Genghis Khan, who
rejoiced in slaughter and commanded the killing of innocent men, women,
and
children as his mounted minions raped, pillaged,
and plundered wherever they went. For centuries Genghis Khan would
stand
infamous as history’s most ruthless practitioner
of genocide.
These Mongols were Asiatic,
not Caucasian. They were also, as those in their path were about to
discover
to their grief, the world’s finest cavalry
soldiers and by far the most brutal. By age twenty-eight, through an
alliance
with neighboring Turks, Khan had subjugated all the
Mongol tribes. Then he turned on his Turkish allies, killed their
leader,
and subjugated them, too. He built loyalty through
rewards of slaves and booty, plus endless promise of new horizons. In
1206 he declared himself supreme Khan (King).
Genghis ruled by imposing heavy tax revenues, troops on demand, and utter obedience to his laws. He once declared
that “the greatest pleasure is to
vanquish your enemies and chase them before you, to rob them of their
wealth and to see those dear to them bathed in
tears, to ride their horses, and clasp to your bosom their wives and
daughters.”
Kill the men - Steal the White women. What a guy!
In
one battle against
Muslims, Khan's hordes descended on a city and
hacked to pieces every man, woman, and child there. All except the
governor,
that is. He died in slow agony as molten silver
was dripped into his eyes and ears. Mongol armies then converged on
the great trading city of Samarkand. After
Genghis’s horsemen annihilated 50,000
foot soldiers. The defending cavalrymen tried to
switch sides, which left the city undefended. The citizens surrendered,
and the Mongols took 100,000 of them as slaves. They then executed 30,000 prisoners.
Meanwhile,
there was more horrifying news. Bukhara, 100 miles
northwest, had fallen to a Mongol army commanded by Genghis himself.
He had surprised the city, hacked its fleeing
garrison to pieces, and burned the place to the ground.
Genghis
then headed west, burning crops, razing cities, and slaughtering
every
human he encountered. He then dispatched 20,000 men
on a mission to scout the rich lands to the west beyond the Caspian
Sea.
When confronted by a large force of Georgians, the
Mongols fled with the Georgians pursuing them until their horses were
exhausted – at which point the Mongols returned,
mounted on the fresh steeds they had waiting for them, and massacred
the entire Georgian army.
Riding
out of the Caucasus,
the Mongols tore a path westward. By 1222, their
scouting army reached Hungary. They then lured an 80,000 strong Slavic
force
into a 250-mile chase. Then, at the river Kalka,
the invaders suddenly turned, confronted the Slavs, and annihilated
them.
Slavic contingents coming up from behind were wiped
out by Mongol archers hidden in clouds of dark smoke, making the
battleground
a black nightmare of slaughter.
By the time the prince
of Kiev arrived with his army, half the original force of 80,000
lay dead. The
horrified Kievans turned to flee but were
butchered in their entirety. The prince was suffocated to death beneath
the table
on which the triumphant Mongols ate their victory
banquet.
Mongols had no honor when it came to prisoners-of-war.
To
Europeans,
it did indeed seem that these heathen warriors
would enslave every nation. Who could stop them? At the heart of their
capability
were the tribesmen themselves, toughened and
disciplined from birth. They could ride for days without food or water.
If necessary, they drank blood drawn from their
horses’ leg veins.
The Mongols could outrace any
foe. Their favorite tactic was to feign withdrawal, drawing the enemy
past hidden flanks, then crush him from front and
back. They created smoke and floods and by 1300 were using gunpowder
cannons,
incendiary grenades, and flaming bamboo rockets.
All this was now directed toward the slaughter, enslavement, and
subjugation
of Europe.
In 1236 Genghis’s grandson Batu,
with an army 120,000 strong, set about finishing
off the northernmost Islamic state, the Bulgar kingdom. In the summer
of
1237 he overwhelmed the Bulgarian capital, Bulgar, exterminating its entire
population of 50,000 and razing the place so completely that it was never rebuilt.
The
once-powerful state of Kiev, where more than 200 years ago Prince
Vladimir had introduced Christianity, had
disintegrated into quarreling provinces. The northern trading center of
Novgorod
had declared independence and was growing rich.
Princes fought perpetually with each other over succession and against
the
free citizens in the emerging cities.
Ryazan
became
the Mongols’ first target. Driving an outpost
garrison back into the city, the invaders spent a week erecting a
wooden
palisade all around it to protect their archers and
catapults. A three-day barrage of arrows and rocks followed, after
which
the attackers burst in with battering rams and
began their slaughter.
Civilians were hacked to pieces with swords, pierced with arrows, flayed alive, impaled, drowned, or burned alive.
The Mongols raped girls before murdering them and defiled nuns in churches while priests were forced to watch, and
then were thrown into the fires. They torched the city but did allow a few people to run away and tell the rest
of the Slavs what awaited them.
Kill - Rape - Plunder - Enslave
Gentle Medieval White folks who looked like the ones depicted above were exterminated, raped
or enslaved by the MILLIONS!
As
the
Mongols burned a bloody path northward, the Grand
Duke of Suzdal traveled the country gathering armies to defend his
capital
of Vladimir. The Mongols destroyed his city before
he got home, then confronted his army by the river Sit, surrounded it,
and annihilated it.
Now
short of supplies, the invaders
summered on the grassy plains west of the Don,
where they received fresh herds of horses from Mongolia. Through the
following
winter, they annihilated or enslaved nomadic
peoples as far south as the Crimea.
In autumn 1239 they went
north and destroyed Chernigov. Then, they spent the winter on the
Kipchak
steppes but used the time to reconnoiter Kiev,
still the largest and most magnificent city in all the Slavic
territories.
In
December 1240 they struck. Their army battered down the walls,
then sliced its way through defenders atop the
rubble. The carnage was merciless, and in a horrific conclusion, the
weight
of people crowding inside the cathedral collapsed
its walls. All that remained of the once-splendid metropolis was a
hideous
pile of writhing and crushed humanity; six years
later travelers found Kiev’s streets still filled with skulls and
other bones. The Rus were close to being
vanquished in a stroke.
The siege and slaughter of Russian Kiev
Editor's Note *
About this time, the
Mongols made common cause with the Jews of Khazaria. Centuries earlier - before the Christian Rus warriors finally
put the converted Khazar Hun Empire "out of business" - the Khazar
Jews had conquered Hungary and Poland. (here) Israeli scholar Sophia Menache's 2008 paper, entitled: Tartars, Jews, Saracens and the Jewish-Mongol ‘Plot’
of 1241. (here) explores this relationship.
The Jewish Khazar Empire was a Turko-Hun
entity; and Turkics are the "cousins" of Mongols. Old Khazaria was indeed referred to as a "Khanate" (political
entity ruled by a "Khan"). This is why derivatives of the word "Khan" (King)
is a common Jewish surname -
Kagan, Kaganovich etc. That dispersed Khazars and Mongols would vindictively cooperate in exterminating and enslaving
the White Christians of Slavic-Rus Europe is not surprising.
Supreme Court Justice Kagan - Stalin's 'right hand man" Kaganovich
- Putin-hater Vicky "F - - k the EU" Nuland & neo-con husband Robert Kagan
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The Mongol army, like a hurricane gathering momentum,
had grown bigger because of thousands of conscripts - (*surely including many Khazar Jews).
Batu assigned 30,000
troops to hold the Rus while he led another
100,000 across an astounding 600-mile front. His target was Hungary,
ruled by
King Bela IV from Buda.
Neighboring
rulers
ignored Bela's plight. Only after Batu annihilated
Carpathian defenders did Hungary assemble an army. Bearing down on
them
through the mountain snows at an amazing 60 miles
per day, the Mongols arrived at Vac, slaughtered everyone there, and set
up camp.
Nevertheless,
Bela's remaining army of 100,000
was still the largest in Europe, and when Batu
failed to attack immediately, Bela grew confident. Then, Mongol
reinforcements
arrived from the south and he watched in amazement
as the invading army began a slow departure. They were giving up,
thought
the king; they must be afraid or in trouble. And
so, disastrously, he chased them.
At Mohi, about eighty miles
east of Pest, the Mongols sprang their trap. Surrounding the
Hungarians,
they unleashed a barrage of firebombs and arrows.
When a gap finally appeared in the encircling horde and the Hungarians
raced through it to escape, they found themselves
trapped in a gorge where archers annihilated 60,000
of them.
By
then all Europe had been further frightened
by news of more mayhem to the north, where the
northern wing of the Mongol army had destroyed the Polish cities of
Lublin
and Zawichost, sacked Sandomierz, and plundered a
monastery.
In Krakow and Wroclaw terrified residents actually burned their own cities and fled. Finally, at Legnica the rampaging
horsemen had met an army of 25,000
that included Templars, Teutonic Knights,
the entire Polish aristocracy, and the full flower
of northern chivalry. But even this assemblage was obliterated in
short
order.
Waves of panic now rippled all the way to the
Atlantic. In cathedrals people prayed, “From the fury of the Tatars, O Lord, deliver us.”
The
pope called for a crusade against the Mongols in
Germany. Bela, in exile, sent money to build forts on the west side of
the Danube.
Months
went by with no move from Batu.
Then, on Christmas Day 1241, the Mongols exploded
with fury against Buda and against Gran , 30 miles northwest. There
they
roasted citizens alive to make them reveal the
locations of hidden treasure, before riding toward Vienna, about
seventy
miles away. The invasion of Austria had begun.
Mongol troops were spotted as far away as Zagreb, east of the Adriatic.
Panic
also spread in Italy when some were spotted near
Venice.
All
Europe lay helpless before them. (By the way, In the far east, in centuries to come, the Mongols will inflict similar horror, genocide and cultural
destruction upon Aryan India.) It would require the combined might of every army in Christendom to stop these
horsemen, but such a unified force simply did not exist. Then, amazingly, the Mongols vanished.
What the Europeans did not know was that Ogedei Khan
(son of Genghis) had died of a sudden
convulsion. His death had saved Europe, because Batu had to go to
Karakorum,
where the succession would be contested. However,
the dread fear remained, of course; these ghastly marauders would
surely
return, spelling the doom of Christendom.
The death of Ogedei saved western Europe and caused internal dissension among the Mongols.
There
were some who took a different
view of the Mongols, regarding them not as
vanquishers of Christendom but as an instrument by which Christianity
could actually
overcome Islamic invasion. When Innocent IV became
pope in 1243, his chief question about the Mongols was, could they be
converted and used to fight the Muslims? Seeking
answers, in 1245 he dispatched to them a diplomatic embassy led by a
Franciscan monk called John of Plano Carpini.
After a historic three-year adventure, his small party returned as
heroes,
the first Europeans to have visited the Far East.
Unfortunately, the message he brought from Genghis Khan was a
humiliating
rebuff. Christendom had just two choices, the
Mongols declared: submit or perish.
If the Mongols had had the chance, they would have destroyed Rome and Florence as they
devastated Kiev and Baghdad, and there could never have been a Renaissance based on Christian culture.
The
terror-filled population of Western Europe
dreaded the final Mongol push - which, thankfully,
never came. What would the world have been like if the Mongols had
completed
the dream of Genghis Khan?
By
1256 Hulagu had assembled a force of 100,000. His
first objective was to destroy the independent sect called the
Assassins
in their mountain fortresses near the Caspian Sea .
More than 100 Assassin castles crumbled over the next year, pounded by
a thousand crews of Chinese catapult bombers. Every inhabitant, including women and children, was slaughtered.
The
Mongols rolled toward Baghdad, on the Tigris River,
and drowned defending soldiers by the 1000's by
breaking a dike. Bursting through Baghdad’s walls, they unleashed
one of the bloodiest single-city massacres in
human history. It began after remaining troops voluntarily disarmed,
expecting
to be conscripted, but instead were marched out of
the city and butchered. Then, the Mongols killed 500,000
surrendering civilians.
The
Mongols burned Baghdad,
then had the Caliph sewn up in a carpet and
trampled to death by horses. Muslim historians put the total killed as
high
as 2,000,000.
In Russia, Alexander Nevsky
was the first prince to become the Mongols’ servant. He knew that
his people were too weak to expel the Mongols.
Thus, he gave them the chance to survive by gaining the confidence of
their
overlords. About the mid-14th century the Russians
would finally shake off the “Tatar-Mongol yoke.”
1-
Much like Vladimir Putin during the early 2000's, Prince Alexander
Nevsky bought
time for Russia - paying the Mongols their taxes as
Russia patiently waited for the Mongols to weaken internally.
2- The vast Mongol crime-Empire eventually
shrank all the way back to what is modern day Mongolia.
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And
that's all you need to know about the wonderful Mr.
Khan and his culture-less, brutish bloodline-successors who came very
close to annihilating Western Civilization. Had it
not been for the tenacity of the Germans, Poles, Russians, and some
internal
dissension among the Mongols themselves, all of
Europe would have been enslaved and racially cleansed (sort of like what
is happening now). This then is the monster that the Jewish Supremacists
are throwing in the White Man's face.
A New Jersey newspaper
quotes the developer of the Khan exhibit, Don Lessem, who is Jewish. (1) Lessem's deceitful apologia for Khan is hard to stomach:
"We
grew up thinking of him (Genghis Khan) as a
barbarian," said Lessem, a Philadelphia native and dinosaur guru. "But
in reality, we were the barbarians." (By "we", Lessem means White people. You know the trick!)
In the new traveling
exhibit, "Genghis Khan: Bring the Legend to Life" —
at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia — the
true story of this notorious conqueror is told. Fascinated by the
genius
of Khan, Lessem, the developer of the exhibit,
wanted to "set the record straight.
"He
brought the East and West together,"
Lessem said, adding that Khan was indeed a true visionary. 'Khan
invented
passports, paper money, he believed in freedom of
religion and tax breaks for clerics. There are so many things that are
a part of our everyday lives. We just don't
realize it,' he said."
What a great guy that Genghis
was, eh Lessem? That's easy for you to say because Khan and his
successors,
much like ISIS, mass murdered the Aryans of
Central Asia, India and Eastern Europe; and the White Christians,
Persians
and Muslims of the Middle East (and lots of Chinese too). You see, anyone who, genocided, raped and enslaved
as many Aryans as Genghis Khan did is A-1 kosher-certified in Lessem's Talmudic
book!
Lessem's
role is central in putting together this
ode to White Christian and Muslim genocide. But
what about the Franklin Institute's top-brass? Well, as it turns out, Larry
Dubinski, current president and CEO at Franklin is also Jewish. (2)
1- Genghis-lover Don Lessem
2- Lessem, poses with another hater of all things White - Barack Obongo
3- Franklin Institute top dog - Dubinski.
As an historic figure of great significance, there ought to indeed be a Genghis Khan exhibit. But such an exhibit
should graphically depict
Khan
and his mass-murdering, raping, plundering,
torturing, enslaving, culture-wrecking Mongol hordes as genocidal
monsters who
terrorized our European ancestors - not as
"misunderstood conquerers" who gave us "passports" and "tax
breaks for clerics". Good God! This is so frickin'
twisted and evil!
Any self-hating White libtard who shells out money to view this obscenity should have molten silver poured
down his throat and into his eyes - Mongol style! How's that for being "misunderstood"?!
The Khazars
An Overview
Israelite Tribes in Exile
by
Yair Davidiy
Note: For an outline of somewhat more up-to-date information concerning the Khazars, see our article:
"Chapter Outlines: The Khazars. Tribe 13
Contents:
Introduction
The Khazars and Anti-Semites
The Khazars and Karaites
Crimean Tombstones and the Lost Ten Tribes
Biblical Attitude toward Converts in General
Khazar History
The Khazars Convert To Judaism
The Khazars conquer Hungary, Poland, and
Austria
The Khazars and the Vikings
The Physical Appearance of the Khazars
The Khazars and Israel
Havila east of the Caspian , the Anglo-Saxons, and Frisians
The Khazars and Scandinavia
KHAZARS AND FINNS
The Ruling House of
Khazaria
Descended from King David!
The Israelite Origins of the Khazars
The Book:"The KHAZARS. Tribe 13"
Research, Recognition, Reconciliation
Brit-Am
Discussion Group
Contents by Subject
Site Map
Contents in Alphabetical Order
This Site
New Book: "The Khazars.
Tribe 13"
To Hear a Talk based on the Text below:
http://britam.org/Broadcasts/newBAMBI/khazar.mp3
(ca. 40 minutes)
The Khazars were
a powerful people who once ruled over portions of Russia and Eastern Europe.
They (or at least many of their leaders), converted to Judaism and were
eventually defeated and disappeared. Their descendants were either assimilated
amongst the Jews or became Sabbath-keeping and other “divergent” Christians,
many (if not most), of whom, migrated to the west
and to North America. Other descendants of the Khazars may be scattered throughout
the former area of the U.S.S.R. and in different parts of Europe. A knowledge
of the Khazars is useful for several reasons. Evidence exists that the Khazars
were descended from the Lost Tribes of Israel. There is also proof that
they were related to peoples in Western Europe. It follows that evidence
connecting the ancestors of some West European groups to Israel is strengthened when cognizance
is taken of the Israelite ancestry of their Khazar brothers.
The Khazars and Anti-Semites
Another reason for
studying the Khazars is that anti-Semites, and some Assimilationist Jews,
claim that the present-day "Ashkenazi" (European) Jewish people came from the Khazars, who they assume
were non-Israelite. Anti-Semites use this notion of the Khazars to allege
that the Jews are impostors and not true descendants of Israel. Some “Identity”
groups also make this allegation. So do the Arabs and other anti-Semites.
In the past some Assimilationist Jews used the Khazar idea to claim that
since their ancestors were not in Judah at a certain time therefore they
were not culpable for whatever the Jews may or may not have done to the Christian
Messiah. The background for some of these ideas also concerns the Karaites
of Russia.
An Overview
Israelite Tribes in Exile
by
Yair Davidiy
Research, Recognition, Reconciliation | |||
Brit-Am Discussion Group |
Contents by Subject | ||
Site Map Contents in Alphabetical Order |
This Site |
New Book: "The Khazars. Tribe 13" |
To Hear a Talk based on the Text below:
http://britam.org/Broadcasts/newBAMBI/khazar.mp3 (ca. 40 minutes) |
Map taken from Koestler, "The Thirteenth Tribe"
|
The Khazars and Karaites
The Khazars ruled
over many peoples some of whom were also influenced by Hebraising
tendencies.
In Judaism at that time there were two main streams. There were
Rabbinical
Jews who parallel the Orthodox Jews of today and who believed in the
Bible
and in its interpretation according to Oral Tradition. The Oral
tradition is justified by the Bible (Deuteronomy ch.17)
that commands us (on pain of death) to obey the Sages when in doubt. The
Orthodox in their decision were homogeneous
(and still are), and consistent in their basic beliefs and practices.
They
usually managed to reach a consensus regarding the practical
application
of Biblical injunctions. Another group were the Karaites who claimed
to believe only in Scripture. The Karaites, however, were actually
eclectic
and widely divergent amongst themselves in their interpretation of
Scripture.
The Karaite movement in the modern sense may have begun in the region
of present-day
Iraq but its roots can be traced back to the Samaritans and to the
Sadducees
and to other sects of former times. Amongst the numerous groups
subject
to the Khazars were Tartars and Turkish elements and some of these
accepted
the Karaite form of religion. [IT SHOULD HOWEVER BE REMEMBERED THAT
THE JEWISH KHAZARS WERE THEMSELVES ADHERENTS OF THE RABBINICAL FORM.]
The Karaites
of Russia freely intermarried with the Tartars and spoke a Tartar
dialect.
Groups of Karaites were found in Lithuania, Southern Russia, the Crimea,
and at one stage even in Germany. Under the Czars the Jews were
persecuted
and the Karaites naturally wished to be exempt from anti-Jewish
discrimination.
They, therefore, claimed to be descended from the Lost Ten Tribes or
from the Khazars. At all events as not
related to the Judaeans and as such could not be held responsible for
the crucifixion.
Crimean Tombstones and the
Lost Ten Tribes
Lost Ten Tribes
In the Crimea
of Southern Russia certain tombstones, etc., were fabricated by a wealthy
Karaite scholar named Abraham Firkovitch (1786-1874). These tombstones bear the names of people
stating that they are descended from Tribes of Israel exiled by Assyria.
Firkovitch claimed that this was evidence that the Karaites in the Crimea had been there before the Jew
and were not related to them. Several leading authorities were misled by this evidence
and there were those who perhaps wanted to be misled in order to help the
Karaites out of their predicament. By agreeing that the Karaites were descended
from the Lost Ten Tribes, or from the Khazars, they were helping the Karaites
claim that they were not related to the Jews and therefore should not be persecuted
as Jews. It worked. The Karaites were exempted by Russian authorities from restrictive measures taken against Jews.
[Some sections of the Lost Ten Tribes really had once been
in the Crimea and in other areas of southern and eastern Russia. Not all
the evidence produced by Firkovitch was necessarily false. The case is still
under consideration.] Karaite figures, both under the Russians and
under Hitler, strove to prove that they were not racially of Jewish, or Israelite,
origin. Some of them were actively anti-Semitic. TO BE CONSIDERED AN ISRAELITE
OF WHATEVER TYPE CAN BE DANGEROUS!! In some accounts of the Khazars it is assumed that the Karaites descend from them.
This assumption is
mistaken and misleading.
Biblical Attitude Toward
Converts in General
Converts in General
Regarding conversion
or simply the genuine acceptance of membership in the Israelite community,
Scripture has already spoken, “Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress
him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt” (Exodus 22:20).
“One ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth with you, an ordinance for ever in your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the LORD (Numbers 15:15).
“And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn amongst you, which shall beget children among you: and they shall be unto you as born in the country among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel (Ezekiel 47:22).
“One ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth with you, an ordinance for ever in your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the LORD (Numbers 15:15).
“And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn amongst you, which shall beget children among you: and they shall be unto you as born in the country among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel (Ezekiel 47:22).
Khazar History
Traditional Jewish and Armenian sources as well as a linguistic study
(Baschmakoff, Paris 1937), based on place-names indicated that the Khazars
could be connected to Adiabene and its area in the region of Northern Mesopotamia,
i.e. to an area to which part of the Lost Ten Tribes had been exiled in 730-720 BCE.
Arab chroniclers record the Khazars as having been east of the Caspian Sea in the time of Alexander the Great (Dunlop). They also were said to have invaded Armenia in ca.197-217 CE and to have been subjected by the Armenians (Moses of Chorene). The Khazars assisted the Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate in 363 CE and managed to conquer Armenia with their ships dominating the Caspian Sea. The Caspian Sea was formerly known as “The Khazar Sea”. The Khazars were also known as “Gazari” and as “Akatzyri” and “Agathyrsoi”. In the past under the name Agathyrsoi they had been variously reported of in Thrace (south-east Europe), in the Pontus (north-east Turkey), in Poland, and towards the far north-eastern edge of the Baltic Sea shore. Servius on Virgil and Scottish sources said that the Picts of Scotland were descended from a portion of the Agathyrsoi who crossed the sea and conquered North Scotland. One branch of the Khazars were known as Sabirs. A group of “Sabarium” together with “Carnutum” had served in Gaul as Roman mercenaries. These have been ascribed both Anglo-Saxon and Central Asian origins (Altheim, GDH vol.1, p.209 ff, vol.4 p.108 ff). They used the runic “Ing” letter as their emblem. This sign is usually associated with the Angles and is of Scandinavian origin.
Arab chroniclers record the Khazars as having been east of the Caspian Sea in the time of Alexander the Great (Dunlop). They also were said to have invaded Armenia in ca.197-217 CE and to have been subjected by the Armenians (Moses of Chorene). The Khazars assisted the Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate in 363 CE and managed to conquer Armenia with their ships dominating the Caspian Sea. The Caspian Sea was formerly known as “The Khazar Sea”. The Khazars were also known as “Gazari” and as “Akatzyri” and “Agathyrsoi”. In the past under the name Agathyrsoi they had been variously reported of in Thrace (south-east Europe), in the Pontus (north-east Turkey), in Poland, and towards the far north-eastern edge of the Baltic Sea shore. Servius on Virgil and Scottish sources said that the Picts of Scotland were descended from a portion of the Agathyrsoi who crossed the sea and conquered North Scotland. One branch of the Khazars were known as Sabirs. A group of “Sabarium” together with “Carnutum” had served in Gaul as Roman mercenaries. These have been ascribed both Anglo-Saxon and Central Asian origins (Altheim, GDH vol.1, p.209 ff, vol.4 p.108 ff). They used the runic “Ing” letter as their emblem. This sign is usually associated with the Angles and is of Scandinavian origin.
In the period 350-450 CE, the Huns from the area of Mongolia advanced westward conquering other peoples and forcing them to join their forces or flee before them. The Huns swept into Europe. The Anglo-Saxon and related invasions of Britain in the 450s are connected with the Huns aggression. Attila the Hun in ca. 434 CE made the Akartziri (Khazars) his tributaries and appointed his first-born son, Ellac, as king over them. The Akatziri (Khazars), fought as Hun auxiliaries alongside the Black Huns and Alans in Gaul. Upon Attila’s death they returned to the Caucasus area.
Central Asian and Scythian history can be confusing since there were many different groups, each of which often had several names. The names of one group were sometimes interchanged with that of another due to conquest or assimilation or one group taking over the former territory or status of the other.
Another portion of the Khazars were the White Ugrians whom the Chinese described as tall, white-skinned, and green-eyed (McGovern p.472). The White Ugrians had been in that part of Scythia once ascribed to the “Hugie” who were in effect the Franks who later settled in France. The White Ugrians ruled over a mixed Turkish and Mongolian group known as the “Black” Ugrians. Another people once confederated with the Khazars were the White Huns who were also known as “Nephtali” and descended from the Naphtali Tribe of Israel. With the break-up of the Hun Empire remnants of the Huns in the east were absorbed by the “Turkish(?)” Juan-juan who became known as the Avars. The name “Avar” or “Abar” had originally been one of the names of the Naphtalite Huns but somehow it became applicable to the Juan-juan who ruled over them.
As stated, a people in East Scythia known as the Juan-juan had once dominated the Khazars, White Ugrians, and Naphtalite Huns who revolted. In the course of this revolt most of the Naphtalites moved westward eventually reaching Scandinavia and settling in Norway. In the meanwhile the Khazars and White Ugrians defeated the Juan-juan (“Avars”) killing most of them. The remaining Avars were accepted as leaders by the Black Ugrians who previously had been “White Ugrian” vassals. The Black Ugrians henceforth took the name “Avar” upon themselves and migrated to Central Europe, where during the period 550-769 CE, they dominated Hungary, parts of Austria, and parts of Germany. Their kingdom was destroyed by the Frankish Emperor Charlemagne.
Prior to 582 CE the Bulgars in eastern Scythia had been subject to a branch of the Khazars. They moved to the Volga-Ural region and also to the area of modern Bulgaria. In both places the Khazars were suzerain over them at some stage or other.
The Khazars Convert To Judaism
The
Russian-Jewish scholar, Abraham Harcavy (Vilna, 1867), believed that the Khazars had converted
to Judaism in about 620 CE. Other authorities put this event more
than a hundred years later. The conversion at first was more or less a secret
and was confined to the king and his co-ruling associate prince and to the
inner aristocracy. Later most of the Khazars-proper appear to have converted
along with some of the Alans and some of the other subject peoples, most
of whom however remained pagan, Christian, or Moslem. The conversion was also
done in stages (Polak). At first they accepted a kind of monotheism
with Hebraic-type ceremonies. Later they accepted full-fledged Rabbinical
Orthodoxy. The first Khazar king to accept Judaism was named Bulan whose
name means “unicorn” or “elk” (Altheim, GDH vol.1 p.239). The unicorn was
an emblem known from the Sakae region east of the Caspian Sea. The conversion
of the Khazars to Judaism was preceded by a Disputation amongst members of
different religions. The Jewish poet and philosopher Yehuda HaLevi (1074-1141, Spain)
wrote a Classical work in defence of Judaism using this Disputation
as a framework. The book is called “The Kuzari”.
The Khazars conquer Hungary,
Poland, and Austria
Poland, and Austria
In 862 the Khazars
conquered Kiev on the Dneiper River. They may even have been the
original founders of Kiev. The Khazars also ruled over the Magyar people
who at that time appeared in southern Russia. In about 869 a group of
Khazars
called "Chabars" rebelled against the main body and led their Magyar
subjects
westward to Hungary where they settled. The Khazars pursued them and
subdued
them in their new land. The Magyars of Hungary dominated Hungary up to
955
CE. Austrian tradition related that Austria was once ruled
by a line of Jewish kings followed by a line of pagan ones, then came
Christianity.
The time given for these kings (707 bce -227 ce), actually coincides
roughly with the period of Celtic dominance in the area and is
discussed
in the book “Origin” by Yair Davidiy (2002). The names
however of these mythical Jewish kings are non-Hebraic. The first of them is described
by the Chronicle as a local convert to Judaism. It has therefore been suggested (by Koestler)
that Khazar control over the Magyars was responsible for this legend or at
least for certain details of it. We would suggest that the bare structure
of the legend has an historical basis and is connected with the Celts while
some of the subsidiary details (such as the names, etc) were influenced by
direct, or indirect, Khazar influence in the area. The two historical sources may have conflated into one.
A Polish legend says that the Khazars conquered Poland and were led by an “Abraham Pey”. Another legend says that Poland was once ruled by a Jewish king called Abraham Pierkovnik (Polak p.187). The two figures, named Abraham “Pey” or “Pierkovnok” are apparently one and the same. A portion of the Agathyrsi (Khazars) were once in Poland and the said legends may be connected with them.
A Polish legend says that the Khazars conquered Poland and were led by an “Abraham Pey”. Another legend says that Poland was once ruled by a Jewish king called Abraham Pierkovnik (Polak p.187). The two figures, named Abraham “Pey” or “Pierkovnok” are apparently one and the same. A portion of the Agathyrsi (Khazars) were once in Poland and the said legends may be connected with them.
The Khazars and the Vikings
Around the
700s Viking “Varangians” began to penetrate the interior of Russia. The
Varangians were mainly Swedish, though the term (in Russian Chronicles) could
also be used to encompass anybody from Scandinavia, as well as Englishmen
(E.B. 1955, “Russia”, Vernadsky). Varangians were confederated with the Khazars
and may have been the Khazar entity referred to as the Varach’an (Warathan)
Huns. The Varangians were variously referred to as “Varegos”, “Barragos”,
and “Variag” (Polak p.187, Koestler p.147, Minorsky p.432). Their
name may be derived from the Hebrew “Beriah” [pronounceable as “Veri-a-g”],
which name was given to a son of Asher (Genesis 46;17), a son of Ephraim
(1-Chronicles 7;23), and a son of Benjamin(1-Chronicles 8;16).
In ca.800 CE a group of Varangians appeared at the Byzantium court. They called their king “Chakan”. These varangians had orignally come from Sweden and apparently were subjects of the King of Khazaria (ARNE, T. J., Davidiy, "The Khazars. Tribe 13"). The title “Chakan”, or “Cagan”, was originally the Hebrew “COHEN” and means “priest” or “officiate”. [In the Ukraine today the western "h" is still pronounced like a "g"]. More information concerning the Khazars comes from a letter sent some time between 954-961 to Ibn Hasdai who was the Jewish physician and foreign minister to the muslim king of Cordoba in Spain. The letter is from a King Joseph of Khazaria. There are two versions of this letter but both contain important information from early sources. From the letter(s) we learn that: King Joseph was the 13th king of Khazaria; Previously, in the time of the 11th monarch, King Benjamin, all the surrounding kings had been at war against the Khazars except for the King of the Cossacks and the King of the Alans.
By “King of the Cossacks”, the Don Cossacks are intended. The Don Cossacks were a mixed people amongst whom in historical times were a few isolated families who practiced Judaic customs and some of whom converted to Judaism. These individuals had the notion that they were descended from Dan, son of Israel, after whom the Don River was named (Casdoi). This only applies to a few isolated families amongst the Don Cossacks who on the whole have always been anti-Semitic. The Alans were a people who had lived to the north of the Caspian Sea then moved to the Caucasus area and north of it. Previously in the time of Attila, and before then (i.e. in the 400s CE), a section of the Alans had gone westward. They settled in areas of Gaul, especially in Brittany, and may have inluenced Norman military tactics (Bachrach). There were also groups of Alans amongst the Allemans in Alsace and in Suebia. In addition, the name “Alan” is found in Scotland both as a personal name and as the name of a Tribe in the north. In “The Tribes” the Alans are traced to Elon son of Zebulon.
The letter continues to relate that the Alan monarch marched against the enemies of the Khazars and routed them. The King of the Alans had rendered assistance since “some of them observed the Torah of the Jews”. King Joseph of Khazaria himself was married to a daughter of the Alan ruler. Bar Hebraeus reported that the Khazars came from the east and settled in “the country of the Alans now called Barsalia” meaning an area on the northern shores of the Black Sea.
The Khazars proper were a small group who obtained a loose uncertain control over many other nations. The Khazar power was probably always in frequent fluctuation. The Varangians established themselves in and around Kiev where they ruled over the natives. The local inhabitants said that Kiev had been founded by Ku and two of his brothers. These were foreigners (kinsmen of the Khazars), and ruled over the Polanians. The Polonian natives of Kiev told the Varangians that originally “there were three brothers...they built this town and perished. We are sitting [here] and pay tribute to their kinsmen the Khazars.....” This is interesting since originally Kiev had been known as Sambat as reported by the Emperor of Byzantium, Constantine Porphyrogenitus, who lived at the time and had contact with the Khazars. The term "Sambat" means "Sabbath" and in Rabbinical Tradition via the form "Sambation" is linked to the Lost Ten Tribes. The people of Asgard (from whom descended many of the Scandinavians) had lived in this area. The Varangians at first acknowledged Khazar suzerainty and as mentioned it seems that the Khazar “Huns of Warathan” were Varangian. The Varangians were either also known as the Rus or the Rus were another group whom the Varangians absorbed and who became identified with them. In ca. 912-913 the Varangian Rus with Khazar connivance attacked Muslim and Christian settlements on the shores of the Black sea. When the Varangians were returning from their raids they were attacked by a band of 150,000 non-Khazar muslim and Christian subjects of the Khazar king. The attackers were acting against the will of the Khazar ruler who tried to stop them and sent a message to warn the Varangians against them. The Varangians lost 30,000 men in this encounter which meant the loss of 2/3 of their forces. This incident is symptomatic of the Khazars weakening position. Their kingdom had begun to disintegrate and they were overly dependent on Christian and Muslim mercenaries. Their subjects were asserting themselves. The Khazars were perhaps too liberally-disposed for that age and region. In the meantime amongst the Varangians of Kiev Christianity had been spreading. The Varangians were intermarrying with the Slavs and Slavonic elements were entering Varangian ranks as equals.
Abraham Polak was a foremost scholar of Khazar history. He wrote an authoritative work ("Khazaria", in Hebrew, Tel Aviv, 1951) about them and considered them in part an offshoot of the Goths. This is supported by archaeological findings. The Khazar center of Itil on the Volga via the Goths who had preceded them inherited the Orenburg Culture which was derived from Assyrian and Iranian sources (ROSTOVTZEFF, M. 1922). According to Polak the Scandinavian element amongst the Varangians was basically pro-Khazar, whereas the Slavonic one was not. The more Christian and Slavonicised the Varangians became the more distance they kept from Khazar alliance. Saksin (Itil) one of the Khazar capitals was attacked by the Varangian-Rus in 962-963 and again by the Turks in 965. After these attacks the steppes became dominated by Turks and Mongolians. Khazaria was never the same after the Rus and Turkish attacks but some degree of partial recovery may have been achieved. Rubruques in the 1200s mentioned a “Civitas Saxorum” (i.e. City of the Saxons), and is presumed to be referring to the Khazar capital of Saksin (Itil). A German record says that in 1410 the Prince of Lithuania attacked lands by the Caspian Sea, “In the place where, as it is known, live the Red Jews”. The expression “Red Jews” is a term employed by medieval Jews and applied to the Lost Tribes of Israel with whom the Khazars appear to have been identified.
In ca.800 CE a group of Varangians appeared at the Byzantium court. They called their king “Chakan”. These varangians had orignally come from Sweden and apparently were subjects of the King of Khazaria (ARNE, T. J., Davidiy, "The Khazars. Tribe 13"). The title “Chakan”, or “Cagan”, was originally the Hebrew “COHEN” and means “priest” or “officiate”. [In the Ukraine today the western "h" is still pronounced like a "g"]. More information concerning the Khazars comes from a letter sent some time between 954-961 to Ibn Hasdai who was the Jewish physician and foreign minister to the muslim king of Cordoba in Spain. The letter is from a King Joseph of Khazaria. There are two versions of this letter but both contain important information from early sources. From the letter(s) we learn that: King Joseph was the 13th king of Khazaria; Previously, in the time of the 11th monarch, King Benjamin, all the surrounding kings had been at war against the Khazars except for the King of the Cossacks and the King of the Alans.
By “King of the Cossacks”, the Don Cossacks are intended. The Don Cossacks were a mixed people amongst whom in historical times were a few isolated families who practiced Judaic customs and some of whom converted to Judaism. These individuals had the notion that they were descended from Dan, son of Israel, after whom the Don River was named (Casdoi). This only applies to a few isolated families amongst the Don Cossacks who on the whole have always been anti-Semitic. The Alans were a people who had lived to the north of the Caspian Sea then moved to the Caucasus area and north of it. Previously in the time of Attila, and before then (i.e. in the 400s CE), a section of the Alans had gone westward. They settled in areas of Gaul, especially in Brittany, and may have inluenced Norman military tactics (Bachrach). There were also groups of Alans amongst the Allemans in Alsace and in Suebia. In addition, the name “Alan” is found in Scotland both as a personal name and as the name of a Tribe in the north. In “The Tribes” the Alans are traced to Elon son of Zebulon.
The letter continues to relate that the Alan monarch marched against the enemies of the Khazars and routed them. The King of the Alans had rendered assistance since “some of them observed the Torah of the Jews”. King Joseph of Khazaria himself was married to a daughter of the Alan ruler. Bar Hebraeus reported that the Khazars came from the east and settled in “the country of the Alans now called Barsalia” meaning an area on the northern shores of the Black Sea.
The Khazars proper were a small group who obtained a loose uncertain control over many other nations. The Khazar power was probably always in frequent fluctuation. The Varangians established themselves in and around Kiev where they ruled over the natives. The local inhabitants said that Kiev had been founded by Ku and two of his brothers. These were foreigners (kinsmen of the Khazars), and ruled over the Polanians. The Polonian natives of Kiev told the Varangians that originally “there were three brothers...they built this town and perished. We are sitting [here] and pay tribute to their kinsmen the Khazars.....” This is interesting since originally Kiev had been known as Sambat as reported by the Emperor of Byzantium, Constantine Porphyrogenitus, who lived at the time and had contact with the Khazars. The term "Sambat" means "Sabbath" and in Rabbinical Tradition via the form "Sambation" is linked to the Lost Ten Tribes. The people of Asgard (from whom descended many of the Scandinavians) had lived in this area. The Varangians at first acknowledged Khazar suzerainty and as mentioned it seems that the Khazar “Huns of Warathan” were Varangian. The Varangians were either also known as the Rus or the Rus were another group whom the Varangians absorbed and who became identified with them. In ca. 912-913 the Varangian Rus with Khazar connivance attacked Muslim and Christian settlements on the shores of the Black sea. When the Varangians were returning from their raids they were attacked by a band of 150,000 non-Khazar muslim and Christian subjects of the Khazar king. The attackers were acting against the will of the Khazar ruler who tried to stop them and sent a message to warn the Varangians against them. The Varangians lost 30,000 men in this encounter which meant the loss of 2/3 of their forces. This incident is symptomatic of the Khazars weakening position. Their kingdom had begun to disintegrate and they were overly dependent on Christian and Muslim mercenaries. Their subjects were asserting themselves. The Khazars were perhaps too liberally-disposed for that age and region. In the meantime amongst the Varangians of Kiev Christianity had been spreading. The Varangians were intermarrying with the Slavs and Slavonic elements were entering Varangian ranks as equals.
Abraham Polak was a foremost scholar of Khazar history. He wrote an authoritative work ("Khazaria", in Hebrew, Tel Aviv, 1951) about them and considered them in part an offshoot of the Goths. This is supported by archaeological findings. The Khazar center of Itil on the Volga via the Goths who had preceded them inherited the Orenburg Culture which was derived from Assyrian and Iranian sources (ROSTOVTZEFF, M. 1922). According to Polak the Scandinavian element amongst the Varangians was basically pro-Khazar, whereas the Slavonic one was not. The more Christian and Slavonicised the Varangians became the more distance they kept from Khazar alliance. Saksin (Itil) one of the Khazar capitals was attacked by the Varangian-Rus in 962-963 and again by the Turks in 965. After these attacks the steppes became dominated by Turks and Mongolians. Khazaria was never the same after the Rus and Turkish attacks but some degree of partial recovery may have been achieved. Rubruques in the 1200s mentioned a “Civitas Saxorum” (i.e. City of the Saxons), and is presumed to be referring to the Khazar capital of Saksin (Itil). A German record says that in 1410 the Prince of Lithuania attacked lands by the Caspian Sea, “In the place where, as it is known, live the Red Jews”. The expression “Red Jews” is a term employed by medieval Jews and applied to the Lost Tribes of Israel with whom the Khazars appear to have been identified.
The Physical Appearance of the Khazars
Three different types
of Khazar are described by Arab writers who, through trade and
diplomacy, had had direct contact with them. The Arab Geographer Istakhri
(Koestler p.20) said: “The Khazars do not resemble the Turks. They are black-haired
and of two kinds, one called the Kara [i.e. “Black”] - Khazars who are
swarthy verging on deep black as if they were a kind of Hindu, and a white
kind [Ak-Khazars], who are strikingly handsome”. Note the above description
says that both kinds of Khazars had black hair though regarding countenance,
etc. one was white and the other very dark.
Al Maghribi said: “As to the Khazars, they are to the north of the inhabited earth towards the 7th clime, having over their heads the constellation of the plough. Their land is cold and wet, their eyes blue, their hair flowing and predominantly reddish, their bodies large and their natures cold. Their general aspect is wild”. Al-Maghribi is here apparently speaking of another section of the Khazars who lived more to the north. These had “predominantly reddish” hair and blue eyes. It was remarked above that the Khazar White Ugrians were described by the Chinese as red-haired, pale-skinned,and green-eyed. The Tartars of the Crimea nicknamed someone with red-hair "Cusa" meaning Khazar (Polak).
The Alans who were closely associated with the Khazars were described by the Roman historian Ammianus Marcelinus as being blonde-haired like all the Scythians according to him. Ammianus includes the Agathysoi (Khazars) amongst the Alans. Other sources describe the Khazars as overwhelmingly of European type. From the above it follows that different Khazar and Khazar-linked groups were of different types.
Al Maghribi said: “As to the Khazars, they are to the north of the inhabited earth towards the 7th clime, having over their heads the constellation of the plough. Their land is cold and wet, their eyes blue, their hair flowing and predominantly reddish, their bodies large and their natures cold. Their general aspect is wild”. Al-Maghribi is here apparently speaking of another section of the Khazars who lived more to the north. These had “predominantly reddish” hair and blue eyes. It was remarked above that the Khazar White Ugrians were described by the Chinese as red-haired, pale-skinned,and green-eyed. The Tartars of the Crimea nicknamed someone with red-hair "Cusa" meaning Khazar (Polak).
The Alans who were closely associated with the Khazars were described by the Roman historian Ammianus Marcelinus as being blonde-haired like all the Scythians according to him. Ammianus includes the Agathysoi (Khazars) amongst the Alans. Other sources describe the Khazars as overwhelmingly of European type. From the above it follows that different Khazar and Khazar-linked groups were of different types.
The Khazars and Israel
A letter from a Khazar subject (known in academic circles as
the "Schechter Text" relates a tradition
that they were descended from the Tribe of Simeon. Eldad HaDani
(ca.850
CE), wrote that they came from Simeon and Menasseh. Other Jewish
sources (e.g. Chronicle of Yerachmeel) mention the Tribes of Ephraim and
Judah or of Nephtali and Dan though usually it is Simeon and Menasseh.
The Cochin Scroll also
says that the Khazars were descended from Simeon and Menasseh. At the
peak
of their history the Khazars controlled the area of the Don and
Danaper
Rivers and these rivers were referred to in Khazar times as “Sambation”
and
as “River of Sabt (i.e. “Shabat”), and in Jewish legend both terms are
connected
with the Lost Ten Tribes. Archaeological evidence has found Greek
inscriptions bearing the name Sambation
from the Don River region and dating from the pre-Christian era (Yair
Davidiy, The Khazars. Tribe 13).
The Khazars had emerged from areas to which the
Lost Ten Tribes were exiled or had moved to after their exile. The
Khazars
were related to other groups for whom independent proofs show an
Israelite
origin and so what is pertinent to them is pertinent also to the
Khazars
and vice-versa. The Khazars were linked especially with the Tribes of
Simeon
and Menasseh. They were identical with the Agathyrsi-proper who derived
from the Clan of "Jeezer" son of Gilead son of Menasseh (Numbers 26:30).
The name transliterated as "Jeezerites" ("Ha-iy-ez-ri" in Hebrew), was
probably pronounceable in Ancient Israel as
"Ay-(g)a-zar", and the Agathyrsi were also known as "Acatzari",
Khazari,
and Gazari. This name was influenced by local pronounciation of the term
"Caesar", the Khazars being considered the people
of the Kagan who under Byzantine influence was referred to as Caesar
just as the Ruler of the Russians was later called "Czar" (Polak).
Those of the Agathyrsi (Acatzari), who remained in Scythia, eventually
formed the nucleus of the Khazar nation.
The Picts of Scotland also came from the Agathyrsi. Amongst the pre-Christian Picts and Scottish existed a taboo on pig meat and on other unclean animals prohibited by the Mosaic code (MacKenzie, see our article: "The Food Taboos of Old Scotland"). Later in Christian times the tradition existed that "Jews", or a "Type of Jew", had settled in Scotland. Similarly the Khazars, before their conversion, had had some kind of notion that they were of Israelite descent and had had some exposure to Mosaic lore. The "Jeezer" (i.e. "Ay-g-azar" of Gilead) origin of the Picts is consistent with the neighboring Caledonians, (with whom the Picts united), being also descended from Gilead and the very name Caledonian is derived from Gilead. Elements (such as those of Gilead) connected with Menasseh dominated Scotland and the west of Britain. From these areas later came an overwhelming proportion of the early British settlers of North America in its beginnings.
The Picts of Scotland also came from the Agathyrsi. Amongst the pre-Christian Picts and Scottish existed a taboo on pig meat and on other unclean animals prohibited by the Mosaic code (MacKenzie, see our article: "The Food Taboos of Old Scotland"). Later in Christian times the tradition existed that "Jews", or a "Type of Jew", had settled in Scotland. Similarly the Khazars, before their conversion, had had some kind of notion that they were of Israelite descent and had had some exposure to Mosaic lore. The "Jeezer" (i.e. "Ay-g-azar" of Gilead) origin of the Picts is consistent with the neighboring Caledonians, (with whom the Picts united), being also descended from Gilead and the very name Caledonian is derived from Gilead. Elements (such as those of Gilead) connected with Menasseh dominated Scotland and the west of Britain. From these areas later came an overwhelming proportion of the early British settlers of North America in its beginnings.
Havila east of the Caspian, the Anglo-Saxons, and Frisians
Another name for
the Khazars was “Kwalisse”, or rather in Old Russian the terms “Khazar”,
“White Ugrian”, “Kwalisse” were synonymous, though these names actually
refer to separate parts of the Khazar confederacy. “Kwalisse” is derived
from Persian and means “Man of Kwala”. “Kwala” is another name for
the land of Chorasmia which was east of the Caspian. “Kwala”, or Choresmia,
in Hebrew writings (such as those of Eldad HaDani) is referred to as “Havila”.
In the History of Holland by Jean Francoise Le Petit (1601), “Havila” was possessed by the three brothers
Saxo, Frisso, and Bruno who represented the Saxon, Frissian, and Anglian
peoples. [These same three brothers in other Frisian legends are said to have come from the Land
of Israel and are to be identified with former inhabitants of the Northern
Kingdom, see "The Tribes" by Yair Davidiy]. “Havila”, says Le Petit, was in the “East Indies” near
the Eumodian Mountains of which the three brothers were made guardians. According
to Ptolemy the “Eumodian Mountains” were the Altai Mountain Range or near
it. It follows from the above that “Havila” in effect equalled “Kwala” or
Chorasmia. Within the region of Chorasmia-Havila Ptolemy recalled the presence
of various Scythian peoples who, in “The Tribes”, are traced to Israelite
entities. Examples include the Aspassi (Menasseh of Joseph), the Massaei
(Menasseh), Machetegi (Maacha in Menasseh), Suobeni (Jospeh), Samnites (Simeon),
Zaratae (Zarathites of Simeon), Namastae (Namuel of Simeon), and so on. It
will be noticed that the mentioned groups are predominantly from Menasseh,
or from Joseph (father of Menasseh), or from Simeon and the Khazars are
recorded as belonging to the Tribes of Simeon and Menasseh. Most of the peoples
listed by Ptolemy had migrated westward at the time of the Hun invasions
of Europe or before then. Nevertheless, remnants evidently stayed behind
and these became part of the peoples comprising the Khazar nations. From
this region emerged the Parthians, many of whom converted to Judaism and who may be linked
with the Khazars. In their own time the Arsacid rulers of Parthia were
accredited Israelite origins. An Arab source (Yakut) (Ben-Zvi p.247),
says: “Isaac son of Abraham was the father of Khazar, and Bazar, and Bursul,
and Horesm [i.e. Chorasmia-Havila] and Peel”, - all of which peoples appear
to have been members of the Khazar confederation.
The Khazars and Scandinavia
The Persians considered
the Khazars a Scythian people. Herodotus (4;2) said that the Agathyrsoi
(Khazars) were brothers to the Royal Scythians and Gelones. The Royal Scythians
(Scuthae Basiloi) gave their name to Scandinavia which was known as “Basilia”
and “Scatanavia” (Pliny N.H. 37;11). A portion of the Khazars were known
as “Basilians” and their land, (by the Danaper River Mouth west of the Crimea
in a former Royal Scyth region), as “Bartsula”. "Basil" in Ancient Mesopotamia was a term
applied to the area of Bashan east of the Jordan River and to the north. All this region was once part of the territory
of the Israelite Tribes of Menasseh, Reuben, and Gad (cf. Deuteronomy 4:43).
New archaeological findings indicate strongly that Scandinavia was once ruled by the Huns with whom the Khazars were associated. In addition recent findings show the former presence of a colony of Khazars that once existed in Birka in Central Sweden. These Khazars may have been connected to the early Angles and Saxons. Birka in Sweden was also linked with Hedeby. The Baltic port of Hedeby on the north German coast had been a center of the Angles before they moved to Britain. Hedeby was the place were Sheaf Saxnot, the mythical ancestor of the Anglo-Saxons, first arrived at. Sheaf had come from an unknown land in a boat without oars. He taught his people agriculture and the arts of civilization. Geofrey of Monmouth noted the presence of Picts in Scandinavia and he may have been referring to the Khazars who were also known as Agathyrsi and ancestors to part of the Picts. Danish tradition reported of warfare between the Ancient Danes and the Agathyrsi-Khazars. A Swedish scholar has claimed Khazar intermarriages with the Swedish aristocracy in Sweden.
New archaeological findings indicate strongly that Scandinavia was once ruled by the Huns with whom the Khazars were associated. In addition recent findings show the former presence of a colony of Khazars that once existed in Birka in Central Sweden. These Khazars may have been connected to the early Angles and Saxons. Birka in Sweden was also linked with Hedeby. The Baltic port of Hedeby on the north German coast had been a center of the Angles before they moved to Britain. Hedeby was the place were Sheaf Saxnot, the mythical ancestor of the Anglo-Saxons, first arrived at. Sheaf had come from an unknown land in a boat without oars. He taught his people agriculture and the arts of civilization. Geofrey of Monmouth noted the presence of Picts in Scandinavia and he may have been referring to the Khazars who were also known as Agathyrsi and ancestors to part of the Picts. Danish tradition reported of warfare between the Ancient Danes and the Agathyrsi-Khazars. A Swedish scholar has claimed Khazar intermarriages with the Swedish aristocracy in Sweden.
KHAZARS AND FINS
The Khazars were once considered ("Jewish Encyclopedia") to have
spoken
a Finish language as did many Steppe peoples of different origins.
There
used to exist an opinion that most of the Fins did not enter Finland
(from
Scythia) until the 700s and 800s CE. Nowadays this notion appears
to have been dismissed though there probably is something to it. There
may be a connection between the Khazars and
the Finish people. The Fins of Finland in the 17th and 18th centuries
believed
themselves to be descended from the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel. The
Fins call themselves
Suomi (“Shuomi”) which is said to mean “People of the Marshes” or
something similar.
Nevertheless the name is not dissimilar to that of Simeon (“Shimeon”)
in
Hebrew, and the Khazars were traditionally descended from Menasseh and
Simeon. Existing names are frequently re-interpreted and adapted to fit
changing circumstances.
The Fins are probably descended from the Iyrcae (or “Turcae”)
former neighbours of the Nephtalite Huns. The Iyrcae (White Ugrians)
were identified as Khazars in the Russian Chronicle (1100s CE).
In our work, “The Tribes” the Finns
are traced to the Tribes of Gad, Issachar, and Simeon.
The Ruling House of
Khazaria
Descended from King David!
The Arabs reported that the Khazars were ruled by the House of
"Ansa" or "Ayshia". This was before their conversion to Judaism.
The Parthians and earlier monarchs of Scythia were also
ruled by the same lineage.
These names are Arabic variations of the Hebrew "Yishai", as pointed out by Dr. Abraham Polak (1951, p.178).
Yishai in Hebrew is Jesse.
Jesse was the father of David.
"Yishai" (i.e. Jesse) was the father of David (Ruth 4:17) and the expression "Son of Jesse" is a common synonym for David and/or the Lineage of David (e.g. 1-Kings 12:16 2-Chronicles 10:16, 2-Samuel 20:1).
There were offshoots from the House of David amongst the northern Ten Tribes (as distinct from Judah in the south) even before they were exiled from the Assyrians ("Ephraim. The Gentile Children of Israel"). The rulers of Yadi in southeast Turkey which belonged to Israel at the time had Hebrew names like Gabbar, Bamah, Hayya, Saul. Yadi disappeared together with the northern Ten Tribed Kingdom of Israel. "Yadi" means Judah and was the entity referred to in the Bible:
[2-Kings 14:28] NOW THE REST OF THE ACTS OF JEROBOAM, AND ALL THAT HE DID, AND HIS MIGHT, HOW HE WARRED, AND HOW HE RECOVERED DAMASCUS, AND HAMATH, WHICH BELONGED TO JUDAH, FOR ISRAEL, ARE THEY NOT WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF THE CHRONICLES OF THE KINGS OF ISRAEL?
Hamath was the name of a region as well as a city and here refers to "Yadi".
"Yadi" may well have been ruled over by a minor branch of the Davidic Family.
"Yadi" adjoined and was linked with "Smal" of the Dananu from the Tribe of Dan. The Tribe of Dan had ruled over this area as well as the Isle of Cyprus which the Assyrians called "Ydnna" or "Island of Dan".
In 1994, excavations of Dan of the Galilee led to the finding of an Aramaic inscription was found mentioning a "House of David" in connection with Dan. The inscription is in Aramaean (Syrian) and seems to indicate that this House of David had ruled over Dan shortly before it was attacked.
These names are Arabic variations of the Hebrew "Yishai", as pointed out by Dr. Abraham Polak (1951, p.178).
Yishai in Hebrew is Jesse.
Jesse was the father of David.
"Yishai" (i.e. Jesse) was the father of David (Ruth 4:17) and the expression "Son of Jesse" is a common synonym for David and/or the Lineage of David (e.g. 1-Kings 12:16 2-Chronicles 10:16, 2-Samuel 20:1).
There were offshoots from the House of David amongst the northern Ten Tribes (as distinct from Judah in the south) even before they were exiled from the Assyrians ("Ephraim. The Gentile Children of Israel"). The rulers of Yadi in southeast Turkey which belonged to Israel at the time had Hebrew names like Gabbar, Bamah, Hayya, Saul. Yadi disappeared together with the northern Ten Tribed Kingdom of Israel. "Yadi" means Judah and was the entity referred to in the Bible:
[2-Kings 14:28] NOW THE REST OF THE ACTS OF JEROBOAM, AND ALL THAT HE DID, AND HIS MIGHT, HOW HE WARRED, AND HOW HE RECOVERED DAMASCUS, AND HAMATH, WHICH BELONGED TO JUDAH, FOR ISRAEL, ARE THEY NOT WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF THE CHRONICLES OF THE KINGS OF ISRAEL?
Hamath was the name of a region as well as a city and here refers to "Yadi".
"Yadi" may well have been ruled over by a minor branch of the Davidic Family.
"Yadi" adjoined and was linked with "Smal" of the Dananu from the Tribe of Dan. The Tribe of Dan had ruled over this area as well as the Isle of Cyprus which the Assyrians called "Ydnna" or "Island of Dan".
In 1994, excavations of Dan of the Galilee led to the finding of an Aramaic inscription was found mentioning a "House of David" in connection with Dan. The inscription is in Aramaean (Syrian) and seems to indicate that this House of David had ruled over Dan shortly before it was attacked.
The Israelite Origins of the Khazars
We have seen that
the “Sambation” was in Khazar territory. The Arabs linked the Khazars with
Isaac; and on the whole identified them as "Jews". Their Russian neighbors also referred to the
Khazars as "Jews" and their ruler as "King of the Jews".
In Gentile terminology all Israelites may be referred to as "Jews".
Names of groups in the Khazar area bore Israelite Tribal and clan
names; Jewish and Khazar traditions link them with Israel.
European references to the Kingdom of the Khazars referred to them as Red (i.e. red-haired) Jews and identified them with
the Lost Ten Tribes.
The Khazars had familial
links with peoples who moved to Western Europe and whom other proofs show
to have been of Israelite descent. Also indicative of Hebrew ancestry is
the fact that they converted to Judaism despite the hostility expressed to
this religion by other peoples in the region.
Their conversion was an outcome of already existing traditions of Israelite ancestry and former adherence to the
Mosaic Faith.
The Khazars were
mainly the descendants of Jews and of Israelites from the Lost Ten Tribes.
We have evidence for this belief. There were numerous Rabbanical
Jews who fled to the Land of the Khazars and settled there.
The Land of the Khazars relatively speaking was close to and connected by trade and culture to the former region of
Babylonia which had remained a center of Jewish population ever since the time of Nebuchadnezzar.
With the Muslim conquest of Mesopotamia, persecutions of the Jews in Byzantium, and general change of circumstances much
of Babylonian Jewry moved into the Khazar region.
It has been claimed that many European Jews are descended from Khazars - this may be, but it has not been proven. If it were so it would strengthen our position rather than weaken it. HOWEVER there is NO evidence. NOT that there is evidence that can be dismissed BUT there is none APART, (perhaps) from the names of a few villages in Poland, and the fanciful imaginations of a few dilettantes. The Khazars emerged into history at a time when Turkic culture was dominant in their area and at one stage were ruled over by Turkic groups. Jews had many contacts with the Khazars and with Turkic peoples and many Jews had dwelt in both the Khazar Kingdom and in the Turkish Empire. If we were to find traces of the Khazars or Turkic-influences in Jewish culture etc it would not necessarily prove anything since such things can be absorbed by historical contact.
BUT EVEN THIS WE DO NOT FIND!It has been claimed that many European Jews are descended from Khazars - this may be, but it has not been proven. If it were so it would strengthen our position rather than weaken it. HOWEVER there is NO evidence. NOT that there is evidence that can be dismissed BUT there is none APART, (perhaps) from the names of a few villages in Poland, and the fanciful imaginations of a few dilettantes. The Khazars emerged into history at a time when Turkic culture was dominant in their area and at one stage were ruled over by Turkic groups. Jews had many contacts with the Khazars and with Turkic peoples and many Jews had dwelt in both the Khazar Kingdom and in the Turkish Empire. If we were to find traces of the Khazars or Turkic-influences in Jewish culture etc it would not necessarily prove anything since such things can be absorbed by historical contact.
There are no definite names, no real family traditions that are certain,
no customs, no words, not anything at all that can provide us with a firm connection between the European Jews
and the Khazars whom some people claim they are descended from.
A few nineteenth-century Assimilated Hungarian Jews claimed to be descended from Khazars (considered then to be a Magyar Hungarian-type people) because that would make them next-of-kin to their Gentile Hungarian neighbors but they had no proof or not even any real evidence. Being related to the Magyars in the eyes of Hungarian nationalists at the time may have added to national or personal status!
TSo-called "Identity" People who dedicate energy and time to "proving" (in their minds) that the Jews are Khazars etc are actually enemies of Identity truth. They are knowing or unknowing agents of anti-semitic interests that are also against the "Anglo-Saxon" existence. They are enemies of America and of all that is good. The epithets they are apply to others mostly suit themselves.
Much Additional EVIDENCE strengthens the case that the Khazars were of Israelite descent in so far as the proofs in question show that the Khazars really did consider themselves on the whole to be of Israelite origin and so were regarded by most Jewish authorities who were familiar with them as well as the testimony of their neighbors. The evidence in question consists of Hebraic sources and much historical evidence some of which has not previously been available in English. There are also new findings now available in the religious, archaeological, mythological, and linguistic fields. This is presented in a new book by Yair Davidiy, "The Khazars. Tribe 13".
A few nineteenth-century Assimilated Hungarian Jews claimed to be descended from Khazars (considered then to be a Magyar Hungarian-type people) because that would make them next-of-kin to their Gentile Hungarian neighbors but they had no proof or not even any real evidence. Being related to the Magyars in the eyes of Hungarian nationalists at the time may have added to national or personal status!
TSo-called "Identity" People who dedicate energy and time to "proving" (in their minds) that the Jews are Khazars etc are actually enemies of Identity truth. They are knowing or unknowing agents of anti-semitic interests that are also against the "Anglo-Saxon" existence. They are enemies of America and of all that is good. The epithets they are apply to others mostly suit themselves.
Much Additional EVIDENCE strengthens the case that the Khazars were of Israelite descent in so far as the proofs in question show that the Khazars really did consider themselves on the whole to be of Israelite origin and so were regarded by most Jewish authorities who were familiar with them as well as the testimony of their neighbors. The evidence in question consists of Hebraic sources and much historical evidence some of which has not previously been available in English. There are also new findings now available in the religious, archaeological, mythological, and linguistic fields. This is presented in a new book by Yair Davidiy, "The Khazars. Tribe 13".
The Book:
"The Khazars. Tribe 13"
"Chapter Outlines: The Khazars. Tribe 13
"The Khazars. Tribe 13"
"Chapter Outlines: The Khazars. Tribe 13
To Hear a Talk giving an outline of our new book,
"The Khazars. Tribe 13": http://britam.org/Broadcasts/newBAMBI/khazar2.mp3 (ca. 1 hour 05 minutes) |
"The Khazars. Tribe 13" discusses the information provided above in more detail
together with much much more. This work consists of 416 pages of valuable and highly interesting information.
The Khazars came from four different regions, and were known as Hebrews and as Israelites. The ancestral heroes of the Scandinavian and of the Anglo-Saxons were Khazars. Khazar settlements existed in Scandinavia and in Scotland.
The Khazars were a great but unappreciated people.
For more details, go to:
"The Khazars. Tribe 13"
God bless you, O Seekers of the Truth, Yair Davidiy
The Khazars came from four different regions, and were known as Hebrews and as Israelites. The ancestral heroes of the Scandinavian and of the Anglo-Saxons were Khazars. Khazar settlements existed in Scandinavia and in Scotland.
The Khazars were a great but unappreciated people.
For more details, go to:
"The Khazars. Tribe 13"
God bless you, O Seekers of the Truth, Yair Davidiy
See Also the following Brit-Am articles:
"The Khazars. Tribe 13""Chapter Outlines: The Khazars. Tribe 13
Brit-Am Answers to Queries: Khazars
Edward (Ephraim) Hirsch: "The Khazars are coming"
Steven M. Collins: THE KHAZARS AND THE MODERN JEWS
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Dunlop, D.M. “The History of the Jewish Khazars”, New Jersey, U.S.A., 1951.
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Altheim, Franz. “Geschichte Der Hunnen”, Berlin 1962.
ARNE, T. J. "La Suede et L'Orient", Upsal, 1914.
Articles in Encyclopedia Brittanica, Encyclopedia Judaica, Universal Jewish
Encyclopedia, The Jewish Encyclopedia,
Bachrach, B.S. “A History of the Alans in the West”, U.S.A., 1973
Baschmakoff, A. “Cinquante Siecles D’Evolution Ethnique Autour de la Mer Noir”, Paris 1937
Ben-Zvi, Isaac. “The Exiled and the Redeemed”, London, 1958.
Boba, Imre “Nomads, Northmen and Slavs. Eastern Europe in the Ninth Century”, 1967, The Hague.
Casdoi, Zvi. “The Tribes of Jacob and the Preserved of Israel” (Hebrew), Haifa, 1926
Casdoi, Zvi. “HaMitYahadim” (Hebrew), Haifa, 1928
Davidiy, Yair. “The Tribes”, “Ephraim”, “Lost Israelite Identity”,"The Khazars. Tribe 13".
Dunlop, D.M. “The History of the Jewish Khazars”, New Jersey, U.S.A., 1951.
Golden, Peter B. “Khazar Studies”, Budapest, 1980
Henning, W.B. “A Farewell to the Khazars of the Aq-Aqataran”, BSOAS, 1952, pp.501ff
McGovern, W. MacKenzie, Donald A.. “Scottish Folk-Lore and Folk-Life. Studies in Race, Culture, and Tradition”, U.K., 1935.
Minorsky, V. “Hudud al-Alam”. “The Regions of the World”, A Persian Geography 372 A.H. -982 A.d. Translated and Explained by V. Minorsky, edited by CE Bosworth, London, 1970.
Montgomery, “The Early Empires of Central Asia”, New York, 1939.
Koestler, Arthur. “The Thirteenth Tribe. The Khazar Empire and Its Heritage”, New York, 1967.
Polak, Abraham. “Kazaria” (Hebrew), Tel-Aviv, Israel, 1951.
ROSTOVTZEFF, M. "Iranians and Greeks in South Russia", Oxford 1922.
Vernadsky, George. “The Origins of Russia”, 1959, Oxford, U.K.
Vernadsky, George. “Ancient Russia”, Yale, U.S.A., 1943.
See also the Bibliography in Davidiy, Yair. "The Khazars. Tribe 13", Jerusalem, Israel, 2008.
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