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Koestler Website
KHAZAR
(Kazar, Chazar, Chozar, Chozr)
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This book traces the history of the
ancient Khazar Empire, a major but almost forgotten power in Eastern
Europe, which in the Dark Ages became converted to Judaism.
Khazaria
was finally wiped out by the forces of Genghis Khan, but evidence
indicates that the Khazars themselves migrated to Poland and formed
the cradle of Western Jewry
The Khazars sway extended from the Black Sea to the Caspian, from
the Caucasus to the Volga, and they were instrumental in stopping
the Muslim onslaught against Byzantium, the eastern jaw of the
gigantic pincer movement that in the West swept across northern
Africa and into Spain.
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In the second part of this book, The Heritage,
Mr. Koestler
speculates about the ultimate faith of the Khazars and their impact
on the racial composition and social heritage of modern Jewry. He
produces a large body of meticulously detailed research in support
of a theory that sounds all the more convincing for the restraint
with which it is advanced. Yet should this theory be confirmed, the
term anti-Semitism would become void of meaning, since, as
Mr. Koestler writes, it is based,
on a misapprehension shared by both
the killers and their victims. The story of the Khazar Empire, as it
slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel
hoax which history has ever perpetrated.
Contents
PART ONE - RISE AND FALL OF THE KHAZARS
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