I know some people consider the Karaim and Crimchak Jews to be a remnant of the Khazars. In the Russian Empire at any rate the Karaim were considered to be Jewish by religion but not by nationality (i.e. since they are a Turkic people they were deemed to be a separate group from the Yiddish-speaking Jews and were not guilty of having killed Christ) and so were exempt from anti-Jewish legislation. I don't know if anybody attempted to tie that into the Kharar Empire at the time, though ut is not a difficult inference to make.
Interestingly since many supported the Whites in the Civil War quite a few fled to Germany, where under the Nazis they managed to get their Jew-but-not-Jew status confirmed. Apparently this was a subject that worried some of the Nazis.
--- andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Yeah, I read the Koestler book, I don't know whether
> its claims are considered defensible by scholars
> today.
>
> I stand corrected about Horty and the Arrow Cross. I
> knew that. Slip of the mind.
>
>
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