For one thing he seems to exaggerate the number of actual converts among the Khazars. I gather that the entire story of a Jewish Khazar state is now being questioned. There is documentary evidence for the practice of Judaism in khazaria but it seems to have had a lot of competition from other religions, Islam, Christianity, even Buddhism with much better track records for mass conversion. The apparent conversion some of the kings could have been politically motivated, Khazaria was caught between the Byzantines and the growing Islamic empire. They may have seen Judaism as a way of keeping both empire ideologically at bay



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