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@EvolLove

Now I'm going down the rabbit hole...

Turns out there was an earlier example too, "Le judaïsme comme race et comme religion" ("Judaism as Race and as Religion"), January 27, 1883, by Ernest Renan. This might actually be the original. Too bad I don't read French very well.

https://archive.org/details/lejudaismecommer00rena

There was apparently an earlier mention in 1808 of Khazars as the origin of the Varangian Guard who founded the Rus empire, in "Vom Ursprung des russischen Staats" ("On the origins of the Russian state") by Johann Ewers, but I don't think it links it to Azhkenazim (TBD).

Anyway, fwiw modern genetic studies show that mDNA among Ashkenazim is ~60% middle eastern Semitic and ~40% mixed European. Not sure that really supports the Khazarian hypothesis.