Re: Brithenig: Khazar

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.

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John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
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