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 | | The Jews of Khazaria by Kevin Alan Brook ISBN-10: 9780742549814 ISBN-10: 0-7425-4981-X ISBN-13: 9780742549814 ISBN-13: 978-0-7425-4981-4 Hardcover 2006-10-28 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description In this thoroughly revised edition of a modern classic, The Jews of Khazaria explores many exciting new discoveries about the Khazars' religious life, economy, military, government, and culture. It builds upon new studies of the Khazars, evaluating and incorporating recent theories, along with new documentary and archaeological findings. The book gives a comprehensive accounting of the cities, towns, and fortresses of Khazaria, and features a timeline summarizing key events in Khazar history. | ||
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This began my new journey This book began my new journey of learning about the Khazarian royalty I might be descended from. | ||
Amazingly thorough look at Jews in he world after the disapora A little academic for my taste but a fascinating view of the medieval (and older) Hebrew influence on the Middle East and the rest of Europe with emphasis on Eastern Europe. I had heard about a nation in the region that had made Judaism the state religion during the period but knew nothing about it since Khaziria became part of the Ottoman empire (now Turkey.) But the book goes into the Jews' role in Hungary, Bulgaria, Ukraine,Russia, Spain, etc. Much information based on DNA studies of various peoples to provide scientific validation. Fascinating stuff but has to be taken a little at a time since writing is very academic and stiff. Great for those who have an interest in the Jewish disapora. | ||
Informative but Extremely Dry To be perfectly frank, this is one of the more boring books I have ever read. Then again, I read it solely for a research paper so if you are actually interested in the subject you will probably enjoy it more than me. That being said, it was chock full of details, and obviously meticulously researched. It appears that this is THE ONLY recent (and reliable) work on the Khazars, which probably explains why it is so over-priced. Therefore, it is certainly valuable for it's rarity alone. Anyway, the book gives a thorough description of the Khazars from their pre-Jewish origins as a Turkic people, through the conversion, and the building of, and subsequent decline of the Khazarian empire, which included a diaspora of Khazarian Jews into Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. Brook finishes with a discussion of whether or not the Khazars are the ancestors of the modern day Ashkenazi Jews. So, this might not be the most compelling read, but if you're looking to learn about the Khazars, you don't have much choice! Four stars. | ||
Jews of Khazaria I rated this as 3 Stars because it is not for the casual reader. This is a very seriously done work, with plenty of references, and done in studious detail. It is a very detailed history, dealing with what the casual reader would consider as minutiae, but a scholar interested in the subject will find of help and interest. For the scholar it would be a 5 star. | ||
The Jews of Khazaria second edition by Kevin Alan Brook The Jews of Khazaria is a brilliant work of incredible research written in a very interesting manner. This is a group of Turkish people from the early midieval period that has been overlooked in most history books, perhaps mentioned in a few sentences. Kevin Brook has managed to find out so much on the history of Jews. Up to the 10th century Khazaria covered area from the northern Caucasus and the Volga delta to Kiev. I thought after having a Y DNA test and finding that the male side of my family were rather rare Q haplogroup that we would also be from Khazaria but that may not be true. Nevertheless, I have learned a great deal about a part of my history that I had never known about. | ||