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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