Arthur Koestler’s THIRTEENTH TRIBE
Arthur Koestler’s THIRTEENTH TRIBE Arthur Koestler’s The Thirteenth Tribe (1976) presents a bold historical thesis: that the majority of modern Ashkenazi Jews are not descended from the ancient Israelites, but rather from the Khazars—a Turkic people who converted to Judaism in the 8th or 9th century in the region of modern-day southern Russia and the … Read more