About this title: This book traces the history of the ancient Khazar Empire, a major but almost forgotten power in Eastern Europe, which in the Dark Ages converted to Judaism. Khazaria was finally wiped out by the forces of Ghengis Khan, but evidence indicates that the Khazars themselves migrated to Poland and formed the cradle of Western Jewry.
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Description: Good. 0394402847 **Softcover**--Exactly as pictured--NOTE! Has Underlining in the text throughout--cover has shelf wear at tips of corners and minor cover crease or curl, minor Spine Creasing, No personalizations, No marks in the text at all. Tight and well bound. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 1976
ISBN-13:9780394402840ISBN:0394402847
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Highlighting/underlining. Stain on back cover. Underlining. Soft cover. Glued. 255 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House, New York
Date Published: 1976
ISBN-13:9780394402840ISBN:0394402847
Description: Price clipped. tight copy, unmarked, 2-tone boards, jacket has medium wear, edge worn and chipped. 255p, octavo, . map, references, bibliography, index, appendices, jacket not as pictured read more
Edition: Possible BCE.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House, New York
Date Published: 1976
ISBN-13:9780394402840ISBN:0394402847
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Attractive copy with minimal exterior wear. Otherwise clean, unmarked, tight, square. Dj rubbed and edge worn. Sewn binding. Black and yellow half cloth over boards with gilt spine printing. 255 p. 22 cm. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 1976
ISBN-13:9780394402840ISBN:0394402847
Description: New. No dust jacket. Right out of the box, direct from the publisher, satisfaction guaranteed. A fascinating investigation of the ancient Khazar Empire, a major but almost forgotten force in the politics of the Dark Ages. When Western Europe was seeking to expand its Christian influence and Eastern Europe was preaching Islam, the Khazars bravely enforced their geographic middle ground position by embracing Judaism. Koestler reports the history of the Khazars and reveals some startling new ... read more
Edition: Edition or Printing Not Stated
Binding: Cloth Spine Hardcover
Publisher: Random House Inc, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1976
ISBN-13:9780394402840ISBN:0394402847
Description: Near Very Good For Age in Better Than Poor Price Intact jacket. 8 1/2 X 5 1/2. Pages are tight, bright & clean. Binding slight cock and firm. Boards-, spine, edges and corners good. If needed for reference, research, analysis, dissertation or just enjoyment this is the one, WORKING COPY ONLY. If seeking a reading copy for reference, research, analysis, dissertation or just enjoyment, this is the one. Jacket in a crystal-clear polyester protector sleeve. 255 pages, appendices, references, ... read more
Edition: Stated First Edition
Binding: Cloth Spine Hardcover
Publisher: Random House Inc, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1976
ISBN-13:9780394402840ISBN:0394402847
Description: Very Good For Age in Near Very Good Price Intact jacket. 8 1/2 X 5 1/2. Pages are tight, bright & clean. Binding straight and firm. Boards, spine, edges and corners good+. If needed for reference, research, analysis, dissertation or just enjoyment this is the one. If seeking a reading copy for reference, research, analysis, dissertation or just enjoyment, this is the one. Jacket in a crystal-clear polyester protector sleeve. 255 pages, appendices, references, selected bibliography & indexed. ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House, New York
Date Published: 1976
ISBN-13:9780394402840ISBN:0394402847
Description: First U.S. edition, first printing. Yellow cloth spine and black paper over boards. 255 pages. Near Fine in a Very Good Plus clean dust jacket with slight edge wear; dust jacket now in an acid-free mylar protector. read more
Description: [0-394-40284-7] [1976], later printing., later printing. (Hardcover) Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. 255pp. Map, appendices, bibliography, index. Locale: Khazaria. (History (Russia), Jews, Khazar Empire) read more
Edition: Fourth US. Printing.
Binding: Cloth-Backed Boards.
Publisher: Random House, New York
Date Published: 1976
ISBN-13:9780394402840ISBN:0394402847
Description: Very Good in Good jacket. 8vo. Pp: 255. Map. Appendices, references, bibliography, index. Dust jacket shows moderate wear to the extremities, and all the vertical folds show some loss of surface pigment. A history of The Khazar Empire from the seventh to the tenth centuries. read more
Edition: First U.S. Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House Inc, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1976
ISBN-13:9780394402840ISBN:0394402847
Description: Very Good + in Very Good + jacket. First U.S. Edition. VG+/VG+. Hardcover, quarter cloth with copper gilt titles, DJ, 255 pp, light edgewear, else a clean and tight copy. Protected in a mylar cover. read more
"I always wondered what happened to the Jews after each Diasporia. How severe was the punishment? Where did they go? Did they cease to exist or get absorbed into other cultures?
In 1959 on a lonely hilltop in the Sierra Del Carmen in Old Mexico, I had a group of about twelve men approach me and tell me "we no Mexican." They were Apache Indians, Americans driven out of West Texas by the Buffalo Soldiers of Ft. Davis, Texas about one hundred years previous. They were mad and I was white. I said "fantastic, tell me about it." To my relief, they started smiling, dropped to their haunches and told me some of what happened. We had a language problem. One hundred years later, this tribe was only thirty miles into Old Mexico and right off the Big Bend National Park.
They were a village of about thirty people with more settled "out and about." They still were proud of who they were as a race and were separate.
I will imagine this is pretty much what happened when the Jews went to Spain and were accepted for a while and then driven out. One of the places they fled to was an island of power in lower Russia where a strong group of people had adopted the Jewish faith and wanted input as to how to live as a Jew.
This book ... tells the story and will give you closure on a lot of your questions."
"I happened across this on a library shelf just a few months after I read /The Dictionary Of the Khazars/. Until that moment I had assumed that the whole basic story of Pavic's novel, the conscious adoption of Judasim by the Khazar Empire after a bake-off among Judaism, Chrisitanity and Islam, and the Khazars' subsequent complete fade from history, was made up. I was struck quite dumb for several minutes when I saw Koestler's book in the history section.
Most of the book is a competent but ordinary history, outlining the rise and fall of the Khazars' empire (including the bake-off). I found it interesting, but then I'm the type that reads scholarly history for fun. The real pay off came in the last part of the book, where Koestler spins a theory that irresistibly reminds me of the theory that birds are dinosaurs. Citing evidence that is by turns reasonable and ridiculous, he speculates that the Khazars did not fade away; rather, as their power faded, they were pushed into the Balkans and Poland, and are with us today as the Ashkenazim.
In any case, if you've read or plan to read /The Dictionary Of the Khazars/ this is a great companion book. If you're interested in the the European middle ages, this will fill in some gaps in your education if it was anything like mine."
"With so much censorship upon the public's literature and with all the psuedo-facts surrounding modern Jewry, this book was a breath of fresh air to this historian. The Thirteenth Tribe is a scholarly undertaking of the highest order. This is a must read for those who appreciate the undiluted straight facts of dark aged history."
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