© Photos and Text by Okay Deprem http://www.northtravel.org/ A book by the famous historian Arthur Koestler was published in 1976, which created great controversy. The title of the work is “The Thirteenth Tribe”. Koestler, who is also a Jew, in his theory, claims that Eastern, Northern, and Central European Jews (Ashkenazi) originated in a separate, distinct tribe … Continue reading Crimea: In the Footsteps of the Thirteenth Tribe