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  1. en.wikipedia.org

    Bulan was a Khazar king who led the conversion of the Khazars to Judaism. His name means "elk" [1] or "hart" in Old Turkic. The date of his reign is unknown, as the date of the conversion is hotly disputed, though it is certain that Bulan reigned some time between the mid-8th and the mid-9th centuries. ... In The History of the Jewish Khazars ...
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  3. Hasdai Learned of the Khazars. References to the Khazars adopting Judaism as their religion is found in Arabic, Christian and Jewish sources. However, the most famous account is found in the letters known as the Khazar Correspondence, exchanged between Rabbi Hasdai ibn Shaprut (c. 915-975), and Joseph, king of the Khazars.Hasdai (or Chasdai) ibn Shaprut was a fascinating individual in his ...
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    Khazar Jews are known to have lived in Kiev [14] [15] and even to have emigrated to the Byzantine Empire [16] and studied Judaism in Spain. [17] According to some sources the majority may have gone to Hungary , [ 18 ] Poland and the Crimea , mingling with Jews in those areas and with later waves of Jewish immigrants from the west.
  5. en.wikipedia.org

    The Khazars [a] (/ ˈ x ɑː z ɑːr z /) were a nomadic Turkic people that, in the late 6th century CE, established a major commercial empire covering the southeastern section of modern European Russia, southern Ukraine, Crimea, and Kazakhstan. [10] They created what, for its duration, was the most powerful polity to emerge from the break-up of the Western Turkic Khaganate. [11]
  6. Oct 18, 2023Yiddish World Myth about the Khazar kingdom converting to Judaism is symbol of pride in this city Astrakhan, near Kazakhstan, is the place where, according to the story, a nomadic king and his ...
  7. rechtman.com

    The Khazar state saw its first influx of Jewish "immigrants" in 723 in a wave that continued to the early 10th century (944 AD). In 860, the Khazar Kagan adopted monotheism instead of shamanism, and was hospitable to Muslim and Jewish scholars. In 861 king Bulan converted to Judaism and by extension, his entire kaganite became Jewish.
  8. Gradually, the majority of the Khazars followed the example of their king, and accepted the Jewish faith. Unfortunately, about the time when Hasdai's letter reached King Joseph (about 4710), dark clouds appeared on the horizon of the Khazar kingdom. The Russian and Byzantian rulers combined to destroy the Jewish kingdom of the Khazars, and ...
  9. sourcebooks.fordham.edu

    He was the first Jewish Khazar ruler. ] The king of the Byzantines and the Arabs who had heard of him sent their envoys and ambassadors with great riches and many great presents to the King as well as some of their wise men with the object of converting him to their own religion. [The Byzantines and Arabs hoped to stop the raids of the Khazars ...
  10. encyclopedia.yivo.org

    The Khazar Hebrew correspondence of the mid-tenth century (an exchange of letters between the Khazar ruler, Joseph, and the Jewish courtier of the Spanish Umayyads, Ḥasdai ibn Shaprūṭ and the "Letter of an Unknown Khazar Jew," probably from the same era but preserved only in a twelfth-century copy from the Cairo Geniza) presents the ...

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  1. Bulan

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    Bulan was a Khazar king who led the conversion of the Khazars to Judaism. His name means "elk" or "hart" in Old Turkic. The date of his reign is unknown, as the date of the conversion is hotly disputed, though it is certain that Bulan reigned some time between the mid-8th and the mid-9th centuries. Nor is it settled whether Bulan was the Bek or the Khagan of the Khazars. The scholar D. M. Dunlop thought that Bulan and his royal descendants, including Aaron II and Joseph, were Khagans because of the hereditary nature of this lineage and his interpretation of the word "priest" in Sefer ha-Ittim by Judah ben Barzillai. However, more recent scholars, such as Dan Shapira and Kevin Brook, assume that Bulan was the Bek due to references to him leading military campaigns. Khazar tradition held that before his own conversion, Bulan was religiously unaffiliated. Wikipedia

    PredecessorHazer Tarkhan, Kawthar (General)
    SuccessorObadiah
    BornEarly 700s
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