Kabbalah and Cabals

[David Casseres]

Henry sez (replying to Craig)

>No historian I, was there really ever a "rapid spread of Judaism?"
>
>These anti-Semitic tracts usually go on to call blacks and Jews 
>mud-people and spawn of satan. Ancestry seems to be a very important 
>part of racism, ie. it's not just an individuals race, but pedigree, 
>like we're all just a bunch of dogs.


There's this controversial story about the wholesale conversion to 
Judaism of the Khazars, a tribe in the Caucasus.  It shows up in some 
rather old rabbinical writings, I believe, but isn't very widely 
believed.  The claim is that after conversion, the Khazars spread through 
Europe and were the ancestors of many Ashkenazic Jews.

This wouldn't fit very well with the racists' pedigree fixations, of 
course, since the "Aryan" Khazars would be only the inheritors of a 
Jewish tradition, not the original Children of Israel.  The notion that 
Craig mentioned, that the original Jews were Aryans and that their race 
became "polluted," does have the ring of authentic Rassenwissenschaft, 
though.  I suppose it would be easy enough to check the Nazi literature 
of the time and find out how Nazis squared the fascination of Kabbala 
with its Jewishness, but personally I wouldn't have the stomach.



Cheers,
David