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The Thirteenth Tribe

by Arthur Koestler

THE KHAZAR EMPIRE AND ITS HERITAGE

This book traces the history of the ancient Khazar Empire, a major but almost forgotten
power in Eastern Europe, which in the Dark Ages became converted to Judaism. Khazaria
was finally wiped out by the forces of Genghis Khan, but evidence indicates that the Khazars
themselves migrated to Poland and formed the cradle of Western Jewry. . .

The Khazars' sway extended from the Black Sea to the Caspian, from the Caucasus to the
Volga, and they were instrumental in stopping the Muslim onslaught against Byzantium, the
eastern jaw of the gigantic pincer movement that in the West swept across northern Africa
and into Spain.

In the second part of this book, "The Heritage," Mr. Koestler speculates about the ultimate
faith of the Khazars and their impact on the racial composition and social heritage of modern
Jewry. He produces a large body of meticulously detailed research in support of a theory that
sounds all the more convincing for the restraint with which it is advanced. Yet should this
theory be confirmed, the term "anti-Semitism" would become void of meaning, since, as Mr.
Koestler writes, it is based "on a misapprehension shared by both the killers and their
victims. The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look
like the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated."

ISBN 0-394-40284-7

THE KHAZAR EMPIRE AND ITS HERITAGE

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Rise and Fall of the Khazars

I RISE
II CONVERSION
III DECLINE
EARLY RUSSIAN CULTURE BELITTLED
SOVIET HISTORIAN REBUKED
IV FALL
V EXODUS
VI WHERE FROM?
VII CROSS-CURRENTS
VIII RACE AND MYTH
SUMMARY
A NOTE ON SPELLING
A NOTE ON SOURCES
(A) ANCIENT SOURCES
(B) MODERN LITERATURE
THE "KHAZAR CORRESPONDENCE"
SOME IMPLICATIONS - ISRAEL AND THE DIASPORA
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

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What the Critics have to say!

Finally Available To ALL - Absolute Historical Proof : Jews are not Israelites!

Research Proves "Jews" are non-Israelite Asiatics!

DATELINE U.S.A. (1977) -- In 1976 Random House published a book that should have hit
the Christian Churches like a blockbuster, but instead they chose totally to ignore it. It dealt
with the racial origin of the people in Communist and Christian countries who call
themselves "Jews," and whom the Churches (and the Jews themselves) generally insist are
"God's Chosen People," the Israelite descendants of Abraham. Since the late 1800's a small
number of Bible Scholars, who were also students of History and Racial origins, have
insisted the Church denominations were wrong; that instead of being Israelites, these Jews
from Eastern Europe and Western Asia were descended from Mongolians and other Asiatic
peoples who had adopted Judaism as their "religion" over 1,000 years ago and had become
know as "Jews." These Bible scholars were ignored or condemned, and often called
"cultists" or "anti-Semites."

Now, after many years of research, a well-known Jewish author, Arthur Koestler has
published a 255 page book titled THE THIRTEENTH TRIBE in which he proves the same
point; i.e. that these Eastern European "Jews" are neither Israelites nor "Semites," but are
instead Khazars, Mongols, and Huns! Most major newspapers and magazines reviewed the
book during 1976. Also, Random House, the publisher, advertised it extensively and began
some of their ads with the following headline: WHAT IF MOST JEWS AREN'T REALLY
SEMITES AT ALL? In addition, Random House quoted the following reviews:

"Mr. Koestler's excellent book...Is as readable as it is thought-provoking. Nothing could be

more stimulating than the skill, elegance and erudition with which he marshals his facts and
develops his theories..." Fitzroy Maclean, New York Times Book Review.
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"You do not have to be Jewish to be interested... Are today's Western Jews really ethnic,
Semitic, Biblical Jews, or are most of them descendants of converted Khazars?...This
compact, interesting book...examines tragic-ironic implications in [this question] for modern
history...It should fascinate." --Edmund Fuller, Wall Street Journal

"Koestler marshals the evidence in a clear and convincing way. He tells a good story,
pulling together materials from medieval Muslims and Jewish travelers, scholarly
controversy and the mysterious lore of the Khazars." --Raymond Sokolov, Newsweek

Robert Kirsch of the Los Angeles Times stated in his lengthy review that 'Arthur Koestler
publicizes with his customary skills a daring hypothesis: that THE KHAZAR JEWS
MIGRATED TO POLAND AND BECAME THE FOREBEARS OF EASTERN EUROPEAN
JEWRY...' Then Kirsch quoted Prof. A. N. Poliak of Tel Aviv University, who stated that
"The large majority of world Jewry is descended from the Jews of Khazaria." Then he again
quoted Koestler in THE THIRTEENTH TRIBE, "If so, this would mean that their ancestors
came not from the Jordan but from the Volga; not from Canaan but from the Caucasus, once
believed to be the cradle of the Aryan race; and that GENETICALLY THEY ARE MORE
RELATED TO THE HUN, UIGUR, AND MAGYAR TRIBES THAN TO THE SEED OF
ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB..." (emphasis added) We cannot stress enough how
absolutely imperative it is for all Christian Americans to consider the startling proof in
Arthur Koestler's book that today's Jews are not Israelites. The Jewish influence on
American life has reached such a stage that no student of contemporary history can ignore it.
Not only the news media are Jewish monopolies, but top positions in the U.S. government
are largely filled by Eastern European Jews. The magazine and book publishing houses are
in Jewish hands; and movies, television, and the other entertainment industries are
dominated by Jews in all phases. America's government and most of her people's sources of
information are controlled and directed by Jews. If these people were really "God's Chosen
People," perhaps Americans would have little cause for concern -- BUT WHAT IF THEY
ARE REALLY THE "HUNS" AND THEREFORE THE ANCIENT ENEMIES OF
CHRISTENDOM? Since many Americans may not have an opportunity to read Koestler's
book, we shall herewith submit our own index-style review.

THE THIRTEENTH TRIBE

(by Arthur Koestler, Random House)

Reviewed by Pastor Sheldon Emry

Page Information

15 Khazars adopt Judaism as their religion in A.D. 740.

16 Majority of Eastern European Jews are Khazar and Japhetic in origin, not Semitic. Refers
to 1973 Jewish Encyclopedia and A. N. Poliak, Professor, Medieval Jewish History, Tel
Aviv University.
17 Jews more closely related to Hun, Uigur, and Magyrs than to the seed of Abraham Isaac
and Jacob.
18 Khazars exacted tribute from subject peoples.

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20 Identified them with the hosts of Gog and Magog.

22 German word Ketzer is our word for Khazar and means heretic or Jew.
23 Khazars were with Attila the Hun in 4th century.
37-39 Some were phallic worshipers, killed anyone thought to be extra intelligent and called it
an offering to god.
46 Quotes 1,000-year-old Arab historian, "The Khazars and their King are all Jews...some are
of the opinion that Gog and Magog are the Khazars."
47-50 Khazars were re-exporters of foreign goods, middlemen, inspectors of trade, goldsmiths,
and silversmiths; and they exacted 10% tax on all trade.
59-63 Jews fled Rome and Greece to Khazaria to avoid forced conversion to Christianity. They
adopted Islam when forced, repudiating it when safe.
72 Khazar King, in a letter, traced his people in Togarma and Japheth, the ancestors of all the
Turkish tribes.
81 In A.D. 864 a monk wrote "there exists a people under the sky in regions where no
Christians can be found, whose name is Gog and Magog, and who are Huns; among them
is one called Gazari [Khazari?], who are circumcised and observe Judaism in its entirety."
93 Russian communists tried to hide Khazar-Jewish connection!
95-132 History of breaking up of Khazar Empire and integration of these Jews into Russia,
Poland, etc.
135 Khazar kingdom known as a kingdom of "Red" Jews.
141 Khazars joined Ghengis Khan and retained their Judaism.
145 Interchangeable names --Khazar, Zhid (or Yid), and Jew
151 Majority of Jews in Middle Ages were Khazars.
152-154 Jews were mintmasters, royal treasurers, tax collectors, and money lenders. Principal
source of income was foreign trade and the levying of customs dues and they practiced
communal life.
159-161 They lost the name of Khazars and became known as Jews. During Dark Ages commerce
largely in Jewish hands, including slave trade.
163-167 During Crusades whole families and towns of Jews committed suicide rather than accept
Christianity.
167-171 Proves only a handful of Sephardim Jews were in Europe so the vast majority of Jews
today are Khazar in origin.

172-174 Gives origin of Yiddish language. It is NOT Hebrew!

178 "The Jewish dark ages may be said to begin with the Renaissance." (Reviews comment:
This remark by the Jew Cecil Roth, coupled with other information, is a sorrowful
admission that the Jews were supreme in the Dark Ages but lost their dominion over
Europe when the Light of God's Word brought about the Renaissance!)
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Quotes from many sources to prove Jews NOT descended from Biblical Israelites, ending
180-199 with this, ...evidence from anthropology concurs with history in refuting the popular belief
in a Jewish race descended from the biblical tribe.
200-222 Refers to others who have written on the same subject.
223 Israeli's right to exist...not based on...the mythological covenant of Abraham with God; it
is based on international law -- i.e., on the United Nations' decision of 1947. . .
224-226 Koestler ends his book by saying he believes many Jews have learned of their Khazar
ancestry and now reject the Chosen-Race doctrine.

THE THIRTEENTH TRIBE proves beyond doubt that modern Jews are not Biblical
Israelites. Every church member in America should insist that his Pastor investigate these
claims. Are our Jewish politicians, publishers, movie makers, and opinion molders God's
"Chosen People"? Or are they Mongol and Hun infiltrators of Christendom?

Is The Jews' "Chosen People" Masquerade Finally Over?

Shortly after World War I, Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company, assembled a
staff of experts in Detroit to conduct research on the European Jews who had been entering
America in large numbers since the 1880's. Ford provided the staff with several million
dollars for this research, and in 1923 he published the results in a four-volume work titled
"THE INTERNATIONAL JEW." It was Henry Ford's conclusion that very few of these
people who called themselves "Jews" were descendants of the Bible Israelites. Ford further
proved that these Jews, using all sorts of crimes while under the cloak of being the Chosen
People of the Bible, were rapidly taking economic and political control of America. In the
religious field, Ford claimed THE JEWS HAD SECRETLY GAINED CONTROL OF
MOST PROTESTANT SEMINARIES AND CHRISTIAN BOOK- PUBLISHING
HOUSES and had been able to remove almost all criticism of Jews from Christian literature.
In summing up his findings, Henry Ford stated, "The Jews are not the Chosen People,
though practically the entire Church has succumbed to the propaganda which declares them
to be so." Ford's book caused a furor for a few years but soon disappeared from colleges,
universities, and public libraries and became unobtainable at any price. The Churches
continued to teach "The Jews are God's Chosen People, Israel," and the (by then) Jewish-
dominated news media began to refer to Jews always as Israelites. Anyone opposing the
increasing Jewish control of the nations was immediately branded "anti-Semitic;" and Jewish
dominated Seminaries taught new ministers to quote Genesis 12:1-3 and sternly warn their
flocks that anyone speaking unfavorably of the Jews would be "cursed by God." Jewish
control of American society, politics, and religions continued to increase.

In 1951 retired U.S. Military Intelligence Officer, Col. John Beaty, published a scholarly
265-page book IRON CURTAIN OVER AMERICA. In it Col. Beaty gave overwhelming
evidence this strange Race of Eastern European "Jews" were actually Khazar and Mongol
Asiatics and had no racial ancestory in Israel at all.

He then proved that by 1951 these "Jews" had a stranglehold on American politics, on
Banking and Credit, on all sources of news, on the entertainment industry, on America's
education system, and that they were the predominant race as judges, lawyers, doctors, and
in organized crime. The Jewish news media refused to review the book, Jewish book dealers
refused to handle it, Christian book stores ignored it, and only a few thousand copies were
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distributed. Most Americans never heard of IRON CURTAIN OVER AMERICA. Now,
because of renewed interest, both THE INTERNATIONAL JEW (in an abridged edition)
and IRON CURTAIN OVER AMERICA have been reprinted and are available. (See
ordering information below). The latest, and perhaps the most succinct book on this subject,
is ISRAEL'S 5 TRILLION DOLLAR SECRET by Col. Curtis B. Dall, former son-in-law of
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and a personal acquaintance of many high officials in the U.S.
Govern ment since the 1930's. Col. Dall lives and works in the Washington, D. C. area, and
his book, published in 1977. Col. Dall proves again, from reliable sources, that the Jews are
NOT Israelites. In fact, Col. Dall calls their masquerade as "Israel" the greatest "hoax" of the
last centuries! It should be read by every non-Jew.

You now know their false identity as "Israel" protects these "Jews" from being exposed as
aliens and as anti-Americans. Read the books below. Give this sheet to your Minister. Tell
him to preach the truth - or resign! Most preaching today is based on the "Jew-Israel" myth,
and it is false.

"Fear them not therefore; for there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed: and hid,
that shall not be known. What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear
in the ear, that preach ye on the housetops" (Jesus, in Matthew 10:26,27). 13trindx.htm

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