[lbo-talk] 2 fascinating talks by Prof. Shlomo Sand, (Tel Aviv U.) Thursday and Friday in NYC

[Chris Doss]

AFAIK, the first use of a variant of the Khazar argument appeared in the context of the Karaim avoiding the anti-Jewish (evrei) laws of the Pale, when the Karaim argued that because their ancestors had converted to Judaism rather than being ethnic Jews (evrei), they were free of Blood Guilt. The main Karaim guy making the argument, I don't remember his name but you can Wiki it, apparently went so far as to forge documents to "prove" it. They used the same argument later with the Nazis, and succeeded in getting themselves designated as non-Jewish. 

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Thanks, Chris. Oh yes, I understand that. I'm not sold on the Khazar
argument, but I appreciate what it parallels, or tries to explain.
Really interesting to hear about the designations Russians applied to
ethnic and religious Jews.