Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry
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The Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry, often called the "Khazar myth" by its critics, is the hypothesis that Ashkenazi Jews are descended from the Khazars, a multi-ethnic conglomerate of Turkic peoples who formed a semi-nomadic Khanate in the area extending from Eastern Europe to Central Asia. The hypothesis draws on some medieval sources such as the Khazar Correspondence, according to which at some point in the 8th–9th centuries, the ruling elite of the Khazars was said by Judah Halevi and Abraham ibn Daud to have converted to Rabbinic Judaism.
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See also
- Genetic history of Europe
- Genetic studies on Turkish people
- History of the Jews in Turkey
- Japanese-Jewish common ancestry theory
- Japhetic theory
- Jewish ethnic divisions
- Jewish history
- Kuzari
- List of topics characterized as pseudoscience
- Rus' Khaganate
- Theory of Kashmiri descent from lost tribes of Israel
- Theories of Pashtun origin
- Timeline of the Turkic peoples (500–1300)
- Turkic migration
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