Are Jews descendants of Khazars? | POLIN Museum

Prof. Shaul Stampfer will present his views on the popular theory about the Khazar origins of Ashkenazi Jews. According to this theory, mass conversions to Judaism occurred in the Khazar Kingdom, a state that arose in the early Middle Ages in the territory of present-day Georgia. The descendants of the Khazars are then thought to have settled in Polish, Lithuanian and Ukrainian lands and become the core of East-Central European Jewry.
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