New York Times Reveals that European-Descended Jews
have no Blood line to Abraham
The fact that most of those who call themselves Jews are not Jews and have no
claim to the lands of Palestine because they have no genetic
relation to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob can no longer be suppressed. The October
29, 1996 N.Y. Times, in an article entitled, "Scholars Debate Origins
of Yiddish and the Migrations of Jews," states:
"Arching over these questions is the central mystery of just where
the Jews of Eastern Europe came from. Many historians believe that there
were not nearly enough Jews in Western Europe to account for the huge population
that later flourished in Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine and nearby areas.
"By reconstructing the Yiddish mother tongue, linguists hope to
plot the migration of the Jews and their language with a precision never
possible before.
"It has even been suggested, on the basis of linguistic evidence,
that the Jews of Eastern Europe were not predominantly part of the diaspora
from the Middle East, but were members of another ethnic group that adopted
Judaism.
"...One linguist has recently argued that Yiddish began as a Slavic
language that was 'relexified,' with most of its vocabulary replaced with
German words.
"...Even more troublesome are demographic studies indicating that
during the Middle Ages there were no more than 25,000 to 35,000 Jews in
Western Europe. These figures are hard to reconcile with other studies showing
that by the 17th century there were hundreds of thousands of Jews in Eastern
Europe.
"...Some scholars believe the roots of Yiddish, and even the Ashkenazic
people themselves, lie much farther east. In his 1976 book, The Thirteenth
Tribe, Arthur Koestler made the startling suggestion, never taken seriously
by linguists, that the Eastern European Jews were not really Semitic --
that they were largely descended from the Turkish Khazars, who converted
en masse to Judaism in medieval times.
"More recently, Koestler's controversial thesis has been revived
and expanded in a 1993 book, The Ashkenazic 'Jews': A Slavo-Turkic People
in Search of a Jewish Identity (Slavica Publishers), by Dr. Paul Wexler,
a Tel Aviv University linguist.
"Wexler uses a reconstruction of Yiddish to argue that it began
as a Slavic language whose vocabulary was largely replaced with German words.
Going even further, he contends that the Ashkenazic Jews are predominantly
converted Slavs and Turks who merged with a tiny population of Palestinian
Jews from the Diaspora."
