Tag: Ashkenazi

“What are you?” It’s a question that many Middle Eastern and mixed-race people (and Sookie Stackhouse) are accustomed to hearing. When you’re a Jewish person answering this question, sometimes you have some ‘splainin’ to do. Identity is a strange business ...

The question of the origins of the Ashkenazi Jews has been a topic of scholarly debate, and the theory suggesting a Khazar origin is one of the hypotheses proposed. The Khazars were a Turkic people who lived in the region that is now modern-day Ukraine, southern Russia, and Kazakhstan. The Kh...