(Jewish Group) Ukrainian Jews have thrived under democracy. I pray my ancestral country endures

[Behind the Aegis]

2. I am going to take this question as one of good faith.

I will, however, caution you because you are in very 'dangerous' territory in regard to bringing in the Khazars. This "theory" is often used to claim the Jews of Europe, especially the Ashkenazi, are not "real" Jews and it is used as anti-Semitic propaganda, especially regarding Israel and Black Israelites. That said...

The ancestral land in question here is Ukraine. For many Jews, it is an ancestral home, in the way many others call England, Norway, France, their ancestral homes. They have family that lived there for decades, if not centuries. My father's grandparents (at least one) comes from Podolsk the other from a Ukranian shtetl that probably no longer exists. Prior to WWII, many Jews called that part of The Pale of the Settlement home...for centuries. When my great, great-grandfather came, Podolsk was considered a Russian city.