Current Research on the Khazars and the Origins of East European Jews
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CONF. LOCATION:
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Sheraton Centre Toronto (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
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CONFERENCE YEAR:
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2002
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PUB TYPE:
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Conference Presentation
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SUBJECT(S):
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Khazars -- conversion to Judaism; Jews -- Russia -- origins; Jews -- Hungary -- origins
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DISCIPLINE:
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History
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LANGUAGE:
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English
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PUB ID:
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103-380-655
(Last edited on
2002/08/08 16:32:40 GMT-6)
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ABSTRACT:
This invited lecture introduced the history of the Khazars, whose civilization was advanced and trend-setting, and discussed how the rulers and leading tribes converted to Rabbinical Judaism in the late 8th or early 9th century. The main part of this talk described the Jewish practices of the Khazars and examined competing theories about their fate and descendants, including the hypothesis that some of the Khazars arrived in Kievan Rus and adopted Slavic names. The theory that Ashkenazic Jews have some Khazar ancestors was first proposed by Rabbi Isaac Baer Levinsohn of Ukraine in the 19th century. The pros and cons of this theory were examined at length. The complete array of genetic, historical, archaeological, and linguistic evidence was discussed in an attempt to resolve the question of the relative importance of Central European Jewish and Khazarian Jewish components in the Ashkenazic population after the 10th century. The speaker's conclusion was that the Khazars do not form the majority component of any population living today, and are not connected with the Mountain Jews, Crimean Karaites, or Krymchaks, but that some of them might have intermarried with Ashkenazic Jews.
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