By: Curtis Clair Ewing
[I believe this article was written in the 1970s. It was published in the form of a tract by Open-Bible Ministries in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Curtis Clair Ewing was the Pastor of the Church of the Covenants in Los Angeles, California. He was the son-in-law to Pastor Warren B. Record. He was a strong adherent of the Anglo-Israel message and wrote and preached on the subject until his death in 1991.]
There is a great deal being written and preached today on the subject of prophecy. This should be done provided the right people are identified as fulfilling the prophecies of the Bible. No one can honestly deal with prophecy without discussing the Jewish problem. And the Jewish problem cannot be examined without an understanding of the Great Khazar Kingdom (in the vagaries of translations, their name appears in various writings as Kazar, Chazar, Chozr and other spellings which bewilder the student). Yet one scarcely reads about the Khazars in the prophetic writings of modern Evangelicals. However, the Anglo-Israel advocates have been calling attention to this area of Jewry for many years. And even among some of them subject is little understood. But the subject is a matter of historic fact, well documented by both secular and Jewish sources. If we only took the words of Jewish writers, writing about Jews, for Jews, in Jewish publications, we would have a well established case!
As an example, let us lift a few words from the JEWISH ENCYCLOPEDIA, the 1903 edition, published by Funk and Wagnalls of New York and London. In Volume IV, pages 1 to 5 inclusive, is an elaborate article on the subject of a map of the Khazar Kingdom. It is also found in subsequent editions which may be read in the large libraries of larger cities. As we write, we have a photocopy of the article from which we quote the following statements:
“Khazars: A people of Turkish origin whose life and history are interwoven with the very beginnings of the history of the Jews of Russia … driven on by nomadic tribes of the steppes and by their own desire for plunder and revenge … the Kingdom of the Khazars was firmly established in most of South Russia long before the foundation of the Russian monarchy by the Varangians (855) … at this time, the Kingdom of the Khazars stood at the height of its power and was constantly at war … at the end of the eighth century … the king of the Khazars and his grandees, together with a large number of his heathen people, embraced the Jewish religion … the population in the entire domain of the Khazars, in the period between the seventh and the tenth centuries, must have been considerable … about the ninth century, it appears as all Khazars were Jews and they had been converted to Judaism only a short time before.”
There is no doubt that the Khazar kingdom was of considerable size, probably in excess of 800,000 square miles. The map of the kingdom produced by the Jewish Encyclopedia shows it to be a very large kingdom by the end of the tenth century. Incontestable facts prove such a kingdom, a pagan Turco-Finn ancient Mongoloid nation deep in the heart of Asia, which battled its way in bloody wars to its powerful position by the tenth century of the Christian era.
It is also patent that this pagan Khazar kingdom was converted to Judaism about the year 740 A.D. In that year, King Bulan was the first of the Khazars to accept Judaism, and subsequently made Judaism the state religion of the Khazar kingdom. Thereafter, none but Jews could ascend the throne of the Khazars or have a place of power in the kingdom. Like many rulers of pagan nations in which phallic worship was professed and practiced in Europe, King Bulan ceased his long opposition to monotheism and made it the state religion of the Khazars. He also forbade phallic worship, a filthy form of sex degeneracy long practiced as religious worship.
Another more recent production of Jewish scholarship is the ENCYCLOPAEDIA JUDAICA. 16 Volumes, by MacMillan Co., New York, 1971. In volume 10, beginning on page 944 to page 955, you get the same story of the Khazar Kingdom. We also have a photocopy of this article written by Jews about Jews for Jews and anyone else who wishes to read it.
Probably one of the first scholarly books dealing with this story was printed back in 1894 by the Jewish Publishing Society of Philadelphia, a work which was to become a classic on the history of the Jews. Written by Professor H. Graets, himself of historic Khazar ancestry and called THE HISTORY OF THE JEWS, he is not only an authority on the Jews but was regarded, up until recent times, as the world’s foremost authority on the history of the Khazars. In the publication, Professor Graets tells us again all we have already told you and a great deal more about the Khazar’s kingdom, its rise, expansion and final fall. If there were no other source of reference, this one would be enough for any honest seeker after truth.
But let us go on to others, for where there is a wealth of material on this subject. Benjamin H. Freedman, himself a Jew, has written much on this subject. His book, FACTS ARE FACTS, gives the story in a comprehensive way. And in a special prepared article for the Professor Lothrop Stoddard, the world-renowned authority on Ethnology, published an article in The Forum magazine for March 1926, in which he stated: “There are two sharply contrasted types of so-called Jews: (1) Ashkenazim, those from Eastern Europe, short in stature, ROUND-HEADED, with typical Jewish noses; (2) Sephardim, those from Afro-Asia (the Mediterranean), slender in figure, LONG-HEADED, with FINE-CUT NOSES, an harmonic type.” He further states “… the Semitic Jews are long skulled.” It is his learned position that the Ashkenazim is neither Jewish nor Semitic. And, using estimates from the Jews themselves, he states that 82 per cent of Zionists are Ashkenazim [Ashkenazi], and that their claim to Palestine has no racial or historical foundation. He further agrees that probably nine-tenths of the world’s Jews are predominantly of Ashkenazim blood, and that the same proportion is found in America today.
Incidentally, this writer had an interesting experience relating to the article in THE FORUM from which we just quoted. Around 30 years ago, while living in Chicago, I wished to check this article in The Forum. So, I went downtown to the Public Library on Michigan Avenue. From the Library files, I ordered the article in The Forum for March 1926. Turning to the index, the article was certainly listed. But wonder of wonders, when I turned to the page listed, a whole section was missing. It wasn’t just cut out. Before the magazines were bound for permanent keeping, this article was lifted completely out before binding as though it had never been there. You may guess who wanted the article destroyed. It wasn’t because Dr. Stoddard was not a scholar in his own right, for he was a graduate from Harvard with a Ph. D. His many books on race long established him as an authority, and they were introduced by the greatest ethnologists of his day. Fortunately, this article had been published by others and we have it also on our files. And Dr. Stoddard’s books are now republished and made available to scholars and students. One thing is certain, the destruction of any undesirable evidence can only be a momentary victory, for the truth will come out sooner or later.
One of the more recent confirmations of what Koestler wrote is found in RACE, by John R. Baker, published in 1974 by Oxford University Press, New York and London. Baker says on page 238, “… Ashkenazim stock … constitute the great majority, perhaps 90% of the people in the world to whom the name Jews is applied.” And he further appeals to Ripley and Jacobs to support his claim.
Common Sense magazine of May 1, 1959, Mr. Freedman tells of the historical material available on this subject in these words: “In the New York Public Library are 327 books by the world’s greatest historians and other sources of reference, in addition to the Jewish Encyclopedia, dealing with Khazar history, and written between the 3rd A.D. and the 20th A.D. centuries by contemporaries of the Khazars and by modern historians on that subject. These 327 sources of reference on the Khazars are written in the sixteen ancient and modern languages of the writers, requiring simultaneous translators for those consulting these 327 sources of reference, and unable to read the sixteen ancient and modern foreign languages in which these 327 references were written. In the Library of Congress and in the leading private libraries in the U.S.A. and foreign countries, it is possible to consult innumerable other authentic sources of reference revealing the history of the Khazar kingdom of the so-called ‘Jew’ prior to their disappearance as a nation.”
However, the most modern study of this very interesting and important subject was released in 1976 and has proved to be a small BOMB SHELL to students of prophecy. Called THE THIRTEENTH TRIBE: THE KHAZAR EMPIRE AND ITS HERITAGE by Arthur Koestler, Random House, 255 pages: $8.95 (In 1978 a paperback edition of this complete book was printed by POPULAR LIBRARY, a unit of CBS Publications of New York, $2.25). Koestler is an intellectual Robert Ripley on this subject of the Khazars. He is listed in WHO IS WHO IN WORLD JEWRY. He has a long list of honors, citations, and titles conferred upon him by France, Britain and America. His lists of books, written by him, is most impressive and would entitle him to membership in most any literary society. So, he is a Jew, writing about Jews for Jews and anyone else who will read it.
We have in our files favorable reviews of this book by the world’s leading newspapers and magazines such as: The London Sunday Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the Houston Post, The Denver Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, Time and Newsweek, to mention only a few of the favorable reviews by leading publications, not to mention some of the more conservative journals and patriotic publications. Leading book stores told this writer they had a hard time keeping the book in stock. Koestler tells the same story as others about the Khazars, and their conversion to Judaism as their religion. A.D. 740.
One subject treated by Koestler is why King Bulan was converted to Judaism. Caught between the Christianity of Byzantium and the Muslimism of the Arabs, the Khazar King, this court and the military ruling class embraced the Jewish faith as a kind of third force. He reasoned that, if he embraced Christianity, the Muslims would be offended. If he embraced Muslimism, the Christians would be offended. So he reasoned that, since both faiths believed that Moses was a Great Prophet, it would be expedient for him to become a Jew by religion (not by race), thus neutralizing much of the hatred he might encounter. And by compulsion the whole kingdom soon was Jewish by conversion! It was as a nation of Jews that the Khazars finally went into eclipse. This was slow at first. Feeling the squeeze from Russia in the north and by Byzantium in the south, the decline started. The real fall came when Genghis Khan and his Mongol hordes put the whole population to flight in the 13th century. These Jews, by religion only, fled to Hungary, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. In fact, they fled to all Eastern Europe, a people with no unity except their religion.
Another point Koestler argues effectively is over the types of Jews which dominate world Jewry. First are the Sephardim Jews, who lived in Spain for 1,000 years before they were sent into exile. They constitute the minority numbering about 500,000 today. These are the ones most likely to be the real Judahites. The other great branch, so Koestler says, are the Ashkenazim Jew numbering around 11,000,000, all of which came from Eastern Europe. Of course, besides these two types, we also know that before the birth of Jesus Christ the Jewish nation in Palestine overcome the kingdom of Esau-Edom and the Edomites were absorbed by the Jews. Add to this the Black Jews of Ethiopia, plus more Oriental Jews and pictures become quite clouded. As Koestler says in his one chapter on Race and Myth. “The finding of physical anthropology shows that, contrary to popular view, there is no Jewish race.” Thus, goes on the myth of racial purity held by many Evangelicals about the Jewish people. They are as mixed as Heinz 57 kinds.
That Koestler is right on the percentage of Ashkenazim Jews in the world Jewry is generally conceded by other scholars. Gunther in his Racial Elements of European History, page 75, estimates that the Ashkenazim form nine-tenths of the Jewish world community which, at the time he wrote, before Hitler, numbered around 16,000,000.
We are taking some time and space to nail this fact down, that Jewry is made up mostly of a mixed multi-tude. The San Diego Union for August 28, 1966, carried an article titled, ‘The Jews That Aren’t’, by Leo Heiman. The article tells of a Russian Jew named Nathan M. Pollock, and a beef he has with Israeli government. Being a translator of scientific texts and a proofreader for a publishing firm qualify him as a real student. He also devoted most of his adult life telling his Jewish people and the rest of the world that six out of the ten of the Israelis and nine out of ten Jews in the western hemisphere are not real Jews, but descendants of the fierce Khazar tribes which roamed the steppes of southern Russia centuries ago. Israeli government officials concede that Pollock is right about Khazars but try to play down the significance of their dominance today. We also have this article on our files.
No article on this important subject, FROM THE JEWISH VIEW, would be complete without the name of Abraham N. Poliak. He was born in KIEV in 1910 and moved with his family to Palestine in 1932. While he occupied the Chair of Medieval Jewish History at Tel Aviv University, he wrote many historical studies. Two studies of his have contributed to the Khazar Conversion To Judaism, for the Hebrew periodical ZION. This study occasioned lot of controversy, because he defended some of the phases of the Khazar history many called in question. Then in 1944, his book Khazaria hit the market. It also was published in Hebrew at Tel Aviv, so it is not accessible to all students. He brought on himself much hostility because, so his critics said, “…he undermined the sacred tradition concerning the descent of modern Jewry from the BIBLICAL TRIBE!” Because of this, his name was not written up in the Encyclopaedia Judaica. However, in the footnotes to their article KHAZARS in this encyclopaedia, his writings are given in reference. There is no doubt his history of this area in Jewish History will prevail.
Probably the most important NON-JEWISH writer on the Khazars is Professor D. M. Dunlap, lecturer on Islamic history at England’s Cambridge University, a real authority on the Khazars. In 1954, Princeton Oriental Studies, which included THE HISTORY OF THE KHAZARS by Professor Dunlap. He is and was qualified both academically and linguistically to do his great research on the Khazars. Koestler, in his book, tells how Dunlap was projected into his research on the subject. And the Encyclopaedia Judaica gives first and foremost credit to Dr. Dunlap, as one of the world’s leading authorities on the Khazars. In his studies will be found a veritable wealth of material collected from original Oriental sources by Dr. Dunlap and revealed for the first time to the American people.
Now that the truth is coming out concerning the Khazars, it is to be expected that some opposition would come from certain ZIONIST Jews. There are two types of Jews and they react differently on this matter. First, we have the honest, scholarly historians who admit the facts in the case and abide by the consequences. Secondly, we have the Zionists who will tolerate no opposition to their drive to control the Middle East as well as the rest of the world.
At first, when men became aware of the Khazars, it was received as a joke by some of the more humorous Jews, to think that we didn’t know about this empire. But when the full impact of such writers as Koestler and Freedman and Poliak was realized, it resulted in a typical release as is found in the Jewish Press, September 3, 1976. This release goes after such writers with the usual anti-Semitic smear. But it is too late now, for the truth is out and we are just as able to use the material as they are. A great deal more might be given on the Khazar kingdom but if one is not impressed with that which we have already given, we feel nothing would impress that person. Now with this data before us, certain unavoidable conclusions must be drawn. Let us notice few of them.
First, this evidence would certainly explode the JEWISH RACE theory. For, if they are a mixture of Esau-Edom-Hittites, Khazar-Ashkenazim, Sephardim, plus Ethiopian blacks and Orientals, and plus a very charitable concession that a few real Judahites are among them, who has the temerity to call them a race, much less the purest race on earth, as many ignorant Christians have done? All that may be said of them is they are a religious community and then they are as much divided into denominations as Protestants.
Second, the claim that they are the only representatives of the Israelite people on earth is the greatest hoax of all time. They are not a good representative of Judah, much less the other tribes of Israel. As one reads of the many mixtures, as well as the proselytes from heathen people, the claim that they are the seed of Abraham is most absurd. To quote from Koestler, who follows Professor A.M. Poliak of Tel Aviv University who said that “the large majority of world Jewry” is descended from the Jews of Khazar, Koestler writes:
“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, Issac and Jacob. Should this turn out to be the case, then the term ‘anti-Semitism’ would become void of meaning, based on a misapprehension shared by both the killer 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.”
Third, their claim to Palestine or the land of the Middle East deeded to the descendants of Abraham by covenant promise is a false claim which will certainly be exposed in time. And if, as we suggested, Esau-Edom is found in world Jewry, and the Jewish Encyclopedia (1925 Ed.), article Edom, states after the Jews had overcome Edom: “From this time the Idumeans ceased to be a separate people …” then we may look for Obadiah to be fulfilled in the near future, especially vss. 17–18, which read as follows:
“But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions. And the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau: for the LORD hath spoken it.”
If the present occupants of Palestine are not true Israelites, much less Judahites, then we may look for a house-cleaning and terrible judgement to come upon them, or else the above Scripture has no meaning. Once we find out who the Israelites really are not, it is a very easy job to locate Israel provided one is honest and really wishes to know the truth enough to study the evidence. They will find that the marks of Israel are on the Anglo-Saxon Celtic and related people, which the English-speaking people being the latter Day House of Joseph.
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