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There is the question of what became of the Khazar language, which began to die out after the Khazars converted from their religion, and which the princess Ateh taught to a flock of parrots...
...Khazars chose Judaism, an odd historical fact that Koestler and others are at pains to explain satisfactorily. According to one ancient Jewish legend, the Khazar king, Bulan, was in the market for a monotheism to replace his old tribal idolatry. He asked the emissary from Christian Byzantium which faith he would choose if the only option was between Judaism and Islam. The Christian chose Judaism because the Jews -though sinners-at least worshiped the same...
Anna & Ana. Professor Beaty's main theme was ostensibly an attack on Communism. Actually, it was a diatribe against the Khazars (i.e., Jews), who, Beaty insists, were largely responsible for the triumph of Communism in Russia. Apparently, the Khazars also practically captured the Democratic Party, helped drive the U.S. into an "unnecessary war" with Germany ("the historic bulwark of Christian Europe"), watched with cruel calm the slaughter of "as many as possible of the world-ruling and Khazar-hated race of 'Aryans.' " Everyone from Justice Brandeis to Anna M. Rosenberg was brought under fire...
...pagans.' " The Prince, according to El Khoury, found that Christians and Moslems would be willing to accept Judaism as a second choice, that the Jews would kill themselves rather than give up their faith. So he set up Judaism as the religion of the Khazar Dynasty in southern Russia...
Only recorded instance of forcible conversion to Jewry occurred in the 2nd Century B.C., when John Hyrcanus, an early Maccabaean leader, in spite of protests from the rabbis, converted the idolatrous Idumeans. In 740 A.D. the Khazar dynasty in southern Russia, originally pagan, became Jewish. Their kingdom was wiped out in 1016. Aquila, supposedly related to Emperor Hadrian, became a Jew, translated the Old Testament into Greek. A contemporary convert is French, Catholic-born Poet Aimé Palli...