The Wind of the Khazars
Title | The Wind of the Khazars PDF eBook |
Author | Marek Halter |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781592641581 |
At a time when Charlemagne ruled, the Byzantines were encroaching upon Russia, and the faith of Allah was flourishing in Baghdad, there existed a kingdom with a tolerant, advanced civilization: somewhere between the Caucasus mountains and the Volga, the Khazar kingdom grew and flourished, and in one of the oddest choices ever made, converted itself to Judaism. A thousand years later, when the writer Marc Sofer is given an ancient Khazarian coin by a mysterious visitor, he is drawn into investigating the fascinating enigma of the Khazars. Why did these Steppe warriors decide to become Jews? Why, after centuries of power and prosperity, were they effaced from history? What is the connection between this ancient, vanished people, and the terrorist group calling themselves the New Khazars, who have begun attacking oil plants on the Caspian sea? Taking place both in the 10th century and the 21st, this absorbing, dramatic tale is part historical novel, part thriller. The story of the Khazars is interwoven with a contemporary political conspiracy in an unusual blend of reality and fiction that explores the ever important themes of history and identity.
The Wind of the Khazars
Title | The Wind of the Khazars PDF eBook |
Author | Marek Halter |
Publisher | |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Historical fiction |
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Part historical, part modern thriller.
The World of the Khazars
Title | The World of the Khazars PDF eBook |
Author | Peter B. Golden |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 469 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9004160426 |
The Khazar Empire was one of the major states of medieval Eurasia. Drawing on a variety of disciplines (history, linguistics, archaeology, literary studies), the papers in this volume shed new light on many of the disputed topics in Khazar history.
Dictionary of the Khazars
Title | Dictionary of the Khazars PDF eBook |
Author | Milorad Pavić |
Publisher | |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Khazars |
ISBN |
Le vent des Khazars
Title | Le vent des Khazars PDF eBook |
Author | Marek Halter |
Publisher | Robert Laffont |
Pages | 357 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Khazars |
ISBN | 9782221091234 |
Mêlant thriller et roman historique, jonglant avec la réalité et la fiction, Marek Halter nous offre un superbe récit d'aventures et d'amour où l'on retrouve la puissance et le charme de La Mémoire d'Abraham et des Mystères de Jérusalem. Au moment où Charlemagne se fait couronner empereur d'Occident, où l'Empire chrétien de Byzance étend ses conquêtes jusqu'à la Russie, où le grand khalife de Bagdad propage la foi en Allah..., quelque part entre les monts du Caucase et l'embouchure de la Volga, un royaume. se convertit au judaïsme : c'est le début de l'extraordinaire aventure des Khazars... Mille ans plus tard, l'écrivain Marc Sofer se lance à la découverte de cette fascinante énigme que sont les Khazars. Pourquoi ces guerriers de la steppe ont-ils décidé d'être juifs ? Et pourquoi, après trois cents ans de puissance et de prospérité, ont-ils été littéralement "effacés" de l'Histoire ? Son enquête le mène à Bakou, capitale pétrolière de la mer Caspienne, et le précipite au cœur d'une très contemporaine intrigue politique et criminelle...
The Khazars
Title | The Khazars PDF eBook |
Author | Sir Henry Hoyle Howorth |
Publisher | |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 1878 |
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The Khazars
Title | The Khazars PDF eBook |
Author | Bernard Dov Weinryb |
Publisher | |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 1963 |
Genre | Khazars |
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