Zacharie Mayani (birth name Zecharia Solomonovich Klyuchevich, 1899, Melitopol, Russian Empire (currently Ukraine) – 1982, Eilat, Israel) was a French writer and author of Russian Jewish descent.
This connection is dismissed by most scholars as "wildly speculative". Comparative linguistics have long demonstrated that Albanian is a unique branch of the Indo-European languages, whereas the consensus among linguists and etruscologists is that Etruscan was a pre–Indo-European language.
In Les Hyksos et le monde de la Bible (Paris: Payot, 1956) he also emphasized a connection between the Hebrews, the Kenites and the Habiru. Zachari also supported that Canaanites went into Asia Minor, Illyria, and even Italy.
Bibliography
- L'arbre sacré et le rite de l'alliance chez les anciens sémites (1935)
- Les Hyksos et le monde de la Bible (1956)
- Les Etrusques commencent a parler, Collection Signes des Temps XI (1961)