The World of the Khazars. New Perspectives

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Selected Papers from the Jerusalem 1999 International Khazar Colloquium hosted by the Ben Zvi Institute //Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2007The papers in this volume stemming from a wide variety of disciplines shed new light on this important empire that was so central to the history of its era. They represent a wide range of viewpoints and give a good idea of the state of Khazar studies in the present day. In the intervening years since the Colloquium, many of the authors updated and expanded their papers, which were first presented in 1999.Golden P.B. - Khazar Studies: Achievements and Perspectives. Arzhantseva I.A. - The Alans: Neighbours of the Khazars in the Caucasus. Erdal M. - The Khazar Language. Fedorchuk A. - New Findings Relating to Hebrew Epigraphic Sources from the Crimea, with an Appendix on the Readings in King Joseph’s Letter. Golden P.B. - The Conversion of the Khazars to Judaism. Howard-Johnston J. - Byzantine Sources for Khazar History. Kalinina T. - Al-Khazar wa-’l-Ș-aqâliba: Contacts and Conflicts? Noonan T.S. - The Economy of the Khazar Khaganate. Petrukhin V. - Khazaria and Rus’: An Examination of their Historical Relations. Róna-Tas A. - The Khazars and the Magyars. Schweid E. - The Khazar Motif in the Kuzari of Judah Halevi. Shapira D. - Iranian Sources on the Khazars. Shapira D. - Armenian and Georgian Sources on the Khazars: A Re-Evaluation. Shnirelman V. - The Story of a Euphemism: The Khazars in Russian Nationalist Literature. Wasserstein D. - The Khazars and the World of Islam. Wexler P. - Yiddish Evidence for the Khazar Component in the Ashkenazic Ethnogenesis. Zuckerman C. - The Khazars and Byzantium - The First Encounter.