בידספיריט | The History of the Jewish

The History of the Jewish Khazars by D. M. Dunlop. Schocken, 1967. Scarce publication - xv, [1], 293 pages. Index. Bibliography and Abbreviations. ”The first comprehensive history of the Khazars in any Western language... Traces their beginnings, their possible relations with the Persians before Islam, their contacts with the Greeks and wars with the Arabs, their conversion to Judaism, the alleged correspondence with Spain, the relation with the Russions, and, finally, the collapse and disappearance of the Khazar state.” - from dust jacket (not included). ”Dunlop [1909-1987] taught history at Columbia University in the 1950s and '60s and was a highly-regarded scholar of the Khazars as he had command of the many languages required to study them”.