The Demographics of Khazaria

The Demographics of Khazaria

Created on 18 April 2013 Written by Braveheart

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Eran Elhaik of John Hopkins University has written a genetic study claiming that modern Jews are largely descended from the ancient Khazars, a people who had an empire located between the Black and Caspian seas in south Russia. Critics of Elhaik claim that he is really measuring the genes of Armenians and Georgians, not the genes of the Khazars. The most basic point in the whole dispute, however, is demographics. Tens of thousands, arguably hundreds of thousands, of Jews reside in south Russia in precisely the area where the Khazars held their empire. Many of these Jews have red hair, large ears, high cheek bones, large mouths with exaggerated lips and a distinct Mongoloid tint to their eyes. These characteristics, in one form or another, were precisely the Khazar features described by the ancient Arab chroniclers. Other Jews in south Russia display bearded Turkic faces with black hair and swarthy features. Again, these are precisely the characteristics of the Khazar lower classes.
Critics of Elhaik cannot explain how a portion of western Jewry, totaling no more than 25,000-35,000 souls in all of western Europe, could possibly have generated such an immense Jewish population in the heart of the old Khazar empire. They simply ignore the question, just as they ignore the several million Jews hiding behind the Ural Mountains beyond the reach of the mythical “Holocaust”. Death rates in medieval Europe were extraordinarily high. The highest birth rate conceivable for Jewish emigrants moving eastward could not have generated the Jewish population totals in old Khazaria. Thus, if a trickle of eastward immigration and a trickle of Jews moving northward from Italy did not generate the numbers, what did? Only the conversion of the Khazars and their subject Slavic tribes provides the answer.