Kevin Alan Brook - The Jews of Khazaria

The Jews of Khazaria

The Jews of Khazaria

Third Edition

Kevin Alan Brook

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Copyright 2018 by Kevin Alan Brook

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information Available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Brook, Kevin Alan, author.

Title: The Jews of Khazaria / Kevin Alan Brook.

Description: Third edition. | Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017047486 (print) | LCCN 2017049234 (ebook) | ISBN

9781538103432 (ebook) | ISBN 9781538103425 (cloth : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Khazars. | JewsRussiaHistory. | RussiaEthnic relations.

Classification: LCC DK34.K45 (ebook) | LCC DK34.K45 B76 2018 (print) | DDC 947/

.01088296dc23

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The researchers [of Khazar history] have beautiful days in front of them

[while they explore]... [t]he spellbinding history of a Jewish Atlantis that slumbered in neglect for centuries.

Alexandra Lemasson, LExpress, June 7, 2001

Every schoolchild in the West has been told that if not for Charles Martel and the battle of Poitiers there might be a mosque where Notre Dame now stands. What few schoolchildren are aware of is that if not for the Khazars... Eastern Europe might well have become a province of Islam.

Peter Golden, Khazar Studies

To the oppressed Jews of the world, the Khazars were a source of pride and hope, for their existence seemed to prove that God had not completely abandoned His people.

Raymond Scheindlin, The Chronicles of the Jewish People The peoples of the Khazar Khanate had a more advanced way of life than those of the Central Asian Turkic tribes, whose chief occupation was nomadic animal husbandry. The level of its agriculture and handicrafts industry matched contemporary European standards. In terms of commercial development it even exceeded them.

Gyrgy Balzs, The Magyars