Abstract

The Khazars conversion to Judaism is reevaluated in the light of Byzantine and Islamic sources in this article, which was originally published in Harvard Ukranian Studies in 1978. Pritsak, who interrogates why the Khazars changed their religion and why this case do not so much attest in contemporary Judaic, Islamic and Byzantine sources, focuses on there stories of the term, and claimes that not missionaries but traders were influential in conversion.

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