[Fiji Hill]

In his book The Thirteenth Tribe (New York: Random House, 1976), novelist Arthur Koestler advanced the hypothesis that the thirteenth-century Mongol invasion of Central Asia drove the Khazars into Poland, where they generated the rise of Judaism in Europe. However, the book was mostly panned by scholars as poorly researched and hastily written.

Genetic research in this century has shown no link between the Khazars and modern-day Ashkenazi Jews.

[reasonisfaith]

“Scholars” doesn’t sound very credible.

Here is some evidence for the link between some of today’s populations and the Khazars.

“In Elhaik (2013), we tested the genetic diversity among European Jews in light of the two hypotheses: the Rhineland Hypothesis (the narrative) and the competing Khazarian Hypothesis. The results unambiguously support the Khazarian Hypothesis, portraying the European Jewish genome as a tapestry of ancient ancestries and high heterogeneity. This is the most popular paper published in GBE. It was ranked #1 most-read paper since its publication. This work was widely covered by the media (see Press).”

https://eranelhaiklab.org/