History of Jews in Eastern Europe prior to the 15th century

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Warren Paul Green,The Fate of the Crimean Jewish Communities: Ashkenazim, Krimchaks and Karaites, Jewish Social Studies 46.2 (1984)169–176;

Iala Ianbay, The Krimchak Translation of a ‘Targum Seni’ of the Book of Ruth,” Mediterranean Language Review 10 (1998) 1–53;

Jacob Katz, Tradition and Crisis: Jewish Society at the End of the Middle Ages, trans. Bernard D. Cooperman (New York, 1993), 148–151;

Roman K. Kovalev, What Does Historical Numismatics Suggest about the Monetary History of Khazaria in the Ninth Century?: Question Revisited, Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi 13 (2004): 97–129;

Alexander Kulik, O еврейском присутствии на Волыни в XII-XIII вв. [On the Jewish presence in Volhynia in the 12th-13th centuries] Jews and Slavs 11 (2003) 194-201

Alexander Kulik, Jews from Rus' in Medieval England.Jewish. Quarterly Review 102,3 (2012) 371-403

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Irina Levinskaya and Sergei Tokhtas’yev, Jews and Jewish Names in the Bosporan Kingdom, in Studies on the Jewish Diaspora in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods, ed. Benjamin Isaac and Aharon Oppenheimer, pp. 55–73, Te‘udah 12 (Tel Aviv, 1996);

Halil I·Nalcik, Sources and Studies on the Ottoman Black Sea, vol. 1, The Customs Register of Caffa, 1487–1490 (Cambridge, Mass., 1995);

Vladimir Petrukhin, Wolf Moskovich, A. M. Fedorchuk, A. Kulyk, and Dan Shapira, eds., Khazary, Evrei i Slaviane 16 (Jerusalem and Moscow, 2005) ;

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Robert Romanchuk, The Reception of the Judaizer Corpus in Ruthenia and Muscovy: A Case Study in the Logic of Al-Ghazzali, the “Cipher in Squares,” and the Laodicean Epistle, in Speculum Slaviae Orientalis: Muscovy, Ruthenia and Lithuania in theLate Middle Ages, ed. Vyacheslav V. Ivanov and Julia Verkholantsev, pp. 144–165 (Moscow, 2005);

Daniel Stone, The Polish-Lithuanian State, 1386–1795 (Seattle, 2001);

Shaul Stampfer, Did the Khazars Convert to Judaism? Jewish Social Studies 19,3 (2013) 1–72;

Dan Shapira, Two names of the first Khazar Jewish Beg.Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi 10 (1998-1999) 231-241;

Dan Shapira, Beginnings of the Karaite communities of the Crimea prior to the sixteenth Karaite Judaism (2003) 709-728;

Dan Shapira, The Turkic languages and literatures of the East European Karaites.Karaite Judaism (2003) 657-707;

Dan Shapira,  Notes on early Jewish history in Eastern and Central Europe.Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi 15 (2006-2007) 125-157;

Dan Shapira, Some notes on the history of the Crimean Jewry from the ancient times until the end of the 19th century, with emphasis on the Qrimçaq Jews in the first half of the 19th century.Jews and Slavs 19 (2008) 65-92;

Dan Shapira, "Turkism", Polish "Sarmatism", and "Jewish szlachta" : some reflections on a cultural context of the Polish-Lithuanian Karaites.Karadeniz araştırmaları 20 (2009) 29-43;

Dan Shapira, The first Jews of Ukraine. Polin 26 (2014) 65-77;

Dan Shapira, Bulgar-Khazar rivalry : notes on ethnical historio-psychology (Judaeo-Turkica VII)Хазарский альманах 1 (2002) 214-225;

Dan Shapira, Armenian and Georgian sources on the Khazars : a re-evaluation.The World of the Khazars (2007) 307-352;

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