New York: Popular Library, 1976. — 319 p. — ISBN 0-445-04242-7. This book by world-famous author Arthur Koestler represents the culmination of the most astounding feat of historical detective work of our time. In bold, brilliant, enthralling fashion, it proves that the true ancestors of Western Jewry were not Semites, but rather the warrior empire of the Khazars, a mighty power...
Południowo-Wschodni Instytut Naukowy w Przemyślu, 2015, ISBN: 978-83-60374-20-7 Kim byli mieszkancy wczesnosredniowiecznego Krolestwa Chazarii? Czy byly to tylko plemiona tureckie, ktore z czysto politycznych powodow przyjely judaizm, jak twierdza niektorzy uczeni? Czy moze, jak wykazuja inni, byl to etniczno-religijny konglomerat skladajacy sie z tak zroznicowanych pod...
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2015. — 335 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450–1450. Vol. 30). In Khazaria in the Ninth and the Tenth Centuries Boris Zhivkov offers a new view on Khazaria by scrutinizing the different visions offered by recent scholarship. The paucity of written sources has made it necessary to turn to additional information about the steppe...
Article // In: The World of the Khazars: New Perspectives. - Brill, 2007. - Pp. 75–107. All scholars who have voiced an opinion on the language of the Khazars in terms of assigning it to a language family take them to have been a Turkic nation speaking a Turkic language. Already in their own age, several Muslim geographers made statements to this effect. Trying to make sense of...
Paperback: 352 p. Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; Second Edition edition (December 16, 2009). Language: English. The Jews of Khazaria chronicles the history of the Khazars, a people who, in the early Middle Ages, founded a large empire in eastern Europe (located in present-day Ukraine and Russia). The Khazars played a pivotal role in world history. Khazaria was one...
Article // Ruthenica. - 2011. - X - pp. 7–56. From the author: "The Kievan Letter — An Original Document of Khazarian Jews of Kiev" has not ceased to stir debate ever since it was published, under this title, by Norman Golb and Omeljan Pritsak in 1982. Two major statements contained in the title, namely the Letter’s Kievan origin and its Khazar connection, have been hotly...
Article // Revue des études byzantines. - 1995. - Tome 53 - pp. 237-270. This study dwells on several key issues in the history of the Khazars: the date of their conversion to Judaism — which is set in 861 or very soon afterwards, the constitutional changes in the Khazar state, its relations with Byzantium and the Rus. An examination of the wars of the early 940s, which...
Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1980. — 291 p. — (Series: Bibliotheca orientalis Hungarica; 25/1-2). Peter Golden, a professor at Rutgers University, is an outstanding historian. His latest book is "An Introduction to the History of the Turkic Peoples" (Otto Harrassowitz, 1992), which also contains some information about the Khazars. The Khazars are a Turkic people who ruled eastern...
Research article // Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 2012. - 33 p. The question of Jewish ancestry has been the subject of controversy for over two centuries and has yet to be resolved. The Rhineland Hypothesis proposes that Eastern European Jews emerged from a small group of German Jews who migrated eastward and expanded rapidly. Alternatively, the Khazarian Hypothesis...
Article // Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. Volume 23. Issue 04. October 2013, Cambridge. - pp. 495-526 «The Turks will take control of Kufa in southern Iraq and the Khazars the province of al-Jazira in northern Iraq» runs a popular hadlth o f the early ‘Abbasid Caliphate. The patently false attribution to the Prophet notwithstanding, this hadlth suggests that the Khazars,...
Leiden: Brill, 2007. — 460 p. — (Selected Papers from the Jerusalem 1999 International Khazar Colloquium hosted by the Ben Zvi Institute - Koninklijke). This volume, a product of international collaboration, presents readers with the state of the field in Khazar Studies. The Khazar Empire (ca. 650 - ca. 965-969), one of the largest states of medieval Eurasia, extended from the...
Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2007. – 469 p. – (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section Eight – Central Asia. Vol. 17). ISSN: 0169-8524. ISBN: 978-90-04-16042-2 Haggai Ben-Shammai. Opening Remarks Peter B. Golden. Khazar Studies: Achievements and Perspectives Irina A. Arzhantseva. The Alans: Neighbours of the Khazars in the Caucasus Marcel Erdal. The Khazar Language Artem Fedorchuk....