THE KHAZAR JEWS. ROMANIAN HISTORY AND ETHNOGRAPHY
THE KHAZAR JEWS. ROMANIAN HISTORY AND ETHNOGRAPHY

Summary/Abstract: Recent historiography is particularly large, varied as subject matter and rich in topics regarding the history of great difficulty of the Khazars. My work covers a small segment, both spatially and temporally. Although the territory inhabited by Romanians was close to the medieval Khazar Empire, it has rarely been addressed in the specialized literature and is therefore difficult to argue for a theory or another; there remains a vast and dynamic area of ethnography, which feeds on many elements of civilization, well preserved in its cultural scaffolding. We have built this study on two main elements: historical and ethnographic elements, through which I will try to present possible influences of civilization of the Jewish Khazars received by Romanian in early Middle Ages. The historical element will be grafted on the Hungarian influence in Transylvania in the ninth to eleventh centuries and the ethnographic element will be based on the field research conducted in the last two decades of the nineteenth-century by the philologist Lazarus Şăineanu in Oltenia.

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