User:Lembit Staan/Khazar myth (conspiracy theory)

As a conspiracy theory among radical Russian nationalists, the Khazar myth is a variant of the Jewish world domination canard. Its idea is that the Russian lands were under the multi-century "Khazarian yoke" (хазарское иго) and the Jews as the descendants of Khazars continue to clandestinely rule the Soviet Union/Russia/Ukraine. This myth is under the Russian anti-Semitic euphemism "Khazars" in reference to the Jews The historical part is based on scarce data from chronices that some East Slavic tribe paid tribute to Khazar Khaganate. ^[1]

It has played some role in Soviet anti-Semitic chauvinism^{[note 1]} and Slavic Eurasian historiography; particularly, in the works of scholars like Lev Gumilev.^[2]

Notes

^ "in the very late 1980s Russian nationalists were fixated on the 'Khazar episode.' For them the Khazar issue seemed to be a crucial one. They treated it as the first historically documented case of the imposition of a foreign yoke on the Slavs, ... In this context the term 'Khazars' became popular as a euphemism for the so-called 'Jewish occupation regime'." (Shnirelman 2007, pp. 353–372)

References

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Victor Schnirelmann, Шнирельман В. А. Хазарский миф : идеология политического радикализма в России и её истоки, Moscow, Мосты культуры-Гешарим, 2012, 312 pp. ISBN 9785932733554
- English translation: The Myth of the Khazars and Intellectual Antisemitism in Russia, 1970s – 1990s, Jerusalem: The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2002. (book review)
^ Rossman 2007, pp. 121–188.

Rossman, Vadim Joseph (2007). "Anti-Semitism in Eurasian Historiography: The Case of Lev Gumilev". In Shlapentokh, Dmitry (ed.). Russia Between East and West: Scholarly Debates on Eurasianism. International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology. Vol. Volume 102. BRILL. pp. 121–188. ISBN 978-90-04-15415-5. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help)
Shnirelman, Victor A (2007). "The Story of an Euphemism: The Khazars in Russian Nationalist Literature". In Golden, Peter B.; Ben-Shammai, Haggai; Róna-Tas, András (eds.). The World of the Khazars: New Perspectives. Handbuch der Orientalistik: Handbook of Uralic studies. Vol. Volume 17. BRILL. pp. 353–372. ISBN 978-90-04-16042-2. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help)

Category:Pseudohistory Category:Conspiracy theories involving Jews Category:Khazars

[2] "in the very late 1980s Russian nationalists were fixated on the 'Khazar episode.' For them the Khazar issue seemed to be a crucial one. They treated it as the first historically documented case of the imposition of a foreign yoke on the Slavs, ... In this context the term 'Khazars' became popular as a euphemism for the so-called 'Jewish occupation regime'." (Shnirelman 2007, pp. 353–372)

[shnir-1] Victor Schnirelmann, Шнирельман В. А. Хазарский миф : идеология политического радикализма в России и её истоки, Moscow, Мосты культуры-Гешарим, 2012, 312 pp. ISBN 9785932733554
English translation: The Myth of the Khazars and Intellectual Antisemitism in Russia, 1970s – 1990s, Jerusalem: The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2002. (book review)

[3] English translation: The Myth of the Khazars and Intellectual Antisemitism in Russia, 1970s – 1990s, Jerusalem: The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2002. (book review)

[FOOTNOTERossman2007121–188-3] Rossman 2007, pp. 121–188.

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