Anita Shapira wrote a scathing review of Shlomo Sand's book in The Journal of Israeli History. volume 28 No. 1 March 2009 (Google Anita Shapira and Shlomo Sand if you wish to read the review in its entirety.)
Because the calling Ashkenazi Jews Khazars is not an infrequent occurrence in the comments section, I will quote from Anita Shapira's review:"The most esteemed scholar of the Khazar monarchy, by Sand's own acknowledgment, is D. M. Dunlop, a British nonJew in command of the languages needed to study the Khazars, on whom information is found in Arabic, Hebrew, Byzantine and Chinese literature. This information is fragmentary and at times contradictory. Dunlop at the end of his book relates to the theory that the Jews of Eastern Europe are the descendants of the Khazars: he states that "This can be dealt with very shortly, because there is little evidence which directly bears upon it and it unavoidably retains the character of a mere assumption."
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