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Has Atil been found? Dmitri Vasiliev thinks his team has located the remnants of the lost city in the newly-found 9th and 10th century layers at Samosdelka. Read his new Russian article "Itil'-mechta (Na raskopkax drevnego tsentra Xazarskogo kaganata)" in Lekhaim, 10 (174), October 2006. Also take a look at Valerii Zhuravliev's Russian article "Sensatsiya nashix dney: A vdrug eto legendarnii Itil'?" from the September 20, 2005 issue of Parlamentskaya gazeta, and a report released by the Regnum News Agency on August 12, 2005. David Keys wrote an article about the Atil digs in BBC History Magazine's May 2008 issue which says they've found, among other things, turquoise-glazed ceramics from Persia, stone cauldrons from Uzbekistan, amber beads from the Baltic region, a dragon-adorned belt end from China, and a copper crucifix.

Abraham's Children: Race, Identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People, Jon Entine's exploration of the genetics of Jewish people, includes discussion of whether Khazars are part of Ashkenazic ancestry. Gene Expression's interview with Jon Entine. Excerpts from Jon Entine's slideshow lecture at the IAJGS conference in June 2007.

The World of the Khazars is the long-awaited collection of papers from the 1999 international colloquium on the Khazars. The 18 articles discuss the Khazars' economy, language, international relations, and more.

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Timothy S. Miller discovered 11th-century Byzantine stories copied by Constantine Akropolites that concern Jewish Khazars living in Pera, a suburb of Constantinople, and their intermarriage with other Jews. The Khazars are portrayed as having become fully integrated with the mainstream Byzantine Jewish community. Miller describes this in his conference paper abstract here. See also my article in Los Muestros.

The Wind of the Khazars, a novel by Marek Halter
Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure, a novel by Michael Chabon
The Jewish Kingdom of Kuzar, a novel by Rabbi Zelig Shachnowitz


Medieval Kingdom of Khazaria, 652-1016

Over a thousand years ago, the far east of Europe was ruled by Jewish kings who presided over numerous tribes, including their own tribe: the Turkic Khazars. After their conversion, the Khazar people used Jewish personal names, spoke and wrote in Hebrew, were circumcised, had synagogues and rabbis, studied the Torah and Talmud, and observed Hanukkah, Pesach, and the Sabbath. The Khazars were an advanced civilization with one of the most tolerant societies of the medieval period. It hosted merchants from all over Asia and Europe. On these pages it is hoped that you may learn more about this fascinating culture.


Current Publications for Sale

THE JEWS OF KHAZARIA
by Kevin Alan Brook
This book discusses all major issues surrounding the Khazar Empire, including diplomacy, trade, culture, military affairs, Khazarian Judaism, and migrations. The book draws from major primary and secondary sources, and includes a concise timeline and glossary towards the end. This was the first English-language book on the Khazars to contain a substantial amount of archaeological data.

THE WORLD OF THE KHAZARS
edited by Peter B. Golden, Haggai Ben-Shammai, and András Róna-Tas
An expensive but valuable collection of wide-ranging views from academic specialists on the Khazars.

JAZARIA
by Félix Kitroser
Spanish-language book about Khazars featuring 12 chapters and 4 appendices, including color maps, illustrations, and translations of the Schechter Letter and Hasdai-Joseph correspondence.

KHAZARSKO-YEVREISKIE DOKUMENTY X VEKA
by Norman Golb, Omeljan Pritsak, and Vladimir Petrukhin
A detailed examination of two 10th-century Khazarian Hebrew documents, the Kievan Letter and the Cambridge Document, in the Russian language.

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