This history of the Khazars is really interesting... if I get more info maybe I'll start a thread, for now I'm just listening
For now I am getting 2 stories;
1. There was these Khazars who for some reason all converted to Judaism because of this King Bulan guy
2. This story was concocted much much later, so that Jews in this region (+ Russia) would be allowed to get into banking again. According to this version Jews at the time were not allowed to bank because their ancestors killed Jesus or something like that. Someone brought out this Khazarian tale saying, 'look, we're not descendants of those peoples, we were Turks/Khazars who were converted'. Which is interesting because if this is so, then most modern era Jews from Europe/Russia really have no ancestral ties with the 'Holy Land' at all. Something about Yiddish coming from this root, different than Hebrew
As I said however I'm just scratching the surface, getting some general impressions of the topic. Any history geeks in here (and I know we have several
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) who have some pieces to this puzzle please post.
What do you think that the current name of Kazakhstan may be derived from a Khazar root name? What do you think of the tales that the Khazars were Satanic/Occultish in nature? And if you can go that far, what of Astana being this semi-secret but obviously super-wealthy occult city in this same region?
They talk of the 'Khazarian Mafia'... 'Synagogue of Satan'... Rothschilds are rumored to be part of this mafia, etc ("...who say they are jews but are not jews", etc to paraphrase some biblical prophecy) Apparently the Khazars had some twisted religion where they would find redemption through deliberate sinning or something (sounds like Rasputin)
Good rabbit hole imo, I've listened to a few lectures on the topic including a few from some rabbis and its still a foggy picture at best
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