Khazaria and Khorasan in 8-9 centuries: political and trade ties

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others being the chirographs of non prominent I(hazar "CamJews. To be specific, one of them is the so-called bridge Document" (also known as the "schechter Letter,named after its discoverer) and the other is the "IGevian Letter" - a pleading seeking the release ofa fellow countryman from debtort prison addressed to coreligionists and written by the KhazarianJewish community oflGev. All the

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