In 652, the armies of Caliph Uthman marched north into the Caucasus to bring Islam to the borders of the Khazar steppe. What ...

In the preface, Movahed writes: "The name 'Khazar' evokes the story of a doomed people who resided across the Caspian Sea, in regions now part of the former Soviet Union. Historically, they held ...

23andMe has backpedalled from broadcasting the discredited theory that a portion of Ashkenazi Jews are descended from an obscure tribe from the Caucasus. But that hasn’t stopped members of the ...

The thesis of a new book, The Invention of the Jewish People, by Tel Aviv University's Shlomo Sand, is actually quite old: That "Jewish peoplehood" is a rather big lie. Sand writes that the Jews are ...

Editor’s Note: Tim Duggan Books is running a giveaway contest for Sisterhood readers. Click here to enter to win a hamsa-shaped metal charm and a galley of the book. When I first began writing my new ...