Immanuel Velikovsky? Someone is citing Immanuel Velikovsky? His work is generously described as crackpot. While some elite ruling circle Khazar's converted to Judaism, most of the population did not actually do so.
Koestler's book is full of unfounded suppostition, and today is mostly used by race hate groups to argue that Jews are a race (not true); and that they are not the "people of the book" (not true) since as Khazars they are not descended from one of the original 12 tribes.
There are some serious studies about the Khazars and the Jews, but Velikovsky and Koestler are not on the short list.
Chip Berlet Senior Analyst Political Research Associates Webmaster http://www.publiceye.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shane Mage [mailto:shmage at pipeline.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 2:45 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] We Need More Jews!
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> Alan Jacobson wrote:
>
> >I have never heard about this before. Am I judaically
> illiterate or is
> >this obscure? Or both?
> >
> >--- Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote:
> >
> >(planting the seeds for the last great Jewish state,
> >the Khazar empire, which lasted from the eighth
> >century CE until the Mongol invasions of the
> >eleventh-twelfth centuries).
>
> The sources for the Khazar Empire are outlined in
> Arthur Koestler's excellent book "The Thirteenth Tribe."
> The case for deported Israelites in its ancestry is
> outlined by Immanuel Velikovsky in an essay entitled
> "Beyond the Mountains of Darkness." If Koestler
> is right about a Khazar origin of East-European ashnenazim
> then Velikovsky is strongly supported by the discovery
> (a decade or so ago) that there are genetic links among
> cohanim of all "races" all over the world.
>
> Shane Mage
>
> "Mortals immortals, immortals mortals,
> living their deaths, dying their lives"
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