Re: Brithenig: Khazar

On Mon, 5 Apr 0100 22:27:49 -0400 John Cowan <cowan@...>
writes:
> Steg Belsky scripsit:
> > Is that _The Thirteenth Tribe_?  I've never read the entire thing,
> just
> > flipped through it a few years ago.  I've heard that the author of
> that
> > book had some major agenda that they were pushing, so to me that
> would
> > make the book at least somewhat suspect.  What's Koestler's
> theory?
> In a word, that most Ashkenazim are descendants of Khazars, and have
> little or no descent from Palestinian Jews.
> However, the Y-chromosome evidence strongly suggests that most
> Cohens,
> both Ashkenazi and Sephardi, have a common ancestor.
> --
> John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
>        I am a member of a civilization. --David Brin
.

Ah.  Besides which, other genetic testing has supported the general
historical belief that Jews are a single ethnic group which has spread
out and mixed with various different ethnic groups in different parts of
the world.  And interestingly enough, two of the most genetically similar
Jewish subcultures are Ashkenazic and *Yemenite*, of all things.
Which i guess would explain why the Rokbeigalm look suspiciously similar
to Yemenites... :-)


-Stephen (Steg)
 "do not look at the jug; rather, at what is inside it."