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	Khazars - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Khazars conquered the Volga Bulgars and the Crimea, levied tribute from the eastern Slavs, and warred with the Arabs, Persians, and Armenians.
		Dictionary of the Khazars as an Epistemological Metaphor.(Critical Essay)
		Dictionary of the Khazars as a Khazar Jar.(Critical Essay)
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-khazars.html (333 words)

	Britain.tv Wikipedia - Khazars
		From the Khazar Correspondence it is apparent that two Spanish Jews, Judah ben Meir ben Nathan and Joseph Gagris, had succeeded in settling in the land of the Khazars.
		Muslim sources report that the Khazar supreme court consisted of two Jews, two Christians, two Muslims, and a "heathen"?title=(whether this is a Turkic shaman or a priest of Slavic or Norse religion is unclear), and a citizen had the right to be judged according to the laws of his religion.
		At a certain point, however, the Khazar connivance to the sacking of the Muslim lands by the Varangians led to a backlash against the Norsemen from the Muslim population of the Khaganate.
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Khazars (7349 words)

	Wikinfo \| Khazars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Khazars were important allies of the Byzantine Empire, and were a major regional power at their height.
		The possible Khazar contribution to the bloodline of modern Ashkenazi Jews is politically sensitive and has been the subject of much discussion, but most geneticists now believe that it is unsubstantial.
		In 986 Khazar Jews were present at Vladimir's disputation to decide on the prospective religion of the Kievian Rus.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Khazars (5677 words)

	Dictionary of the Khazars
		The Khazars were a warlike and nomadic tribe that settled between the Caspian and Black Seas sometime in the seventh century CE.
		Only the scantiest traces of the Khazar people have survived but, in Pavic's fanciful exegesis, the mystery of the "Khazar Polemic" was revived in the seventeenth century and a dictionary of the dictionaries of the Khazar empire was published in 1691 as the Lexicon Corsi.
		There is not, however, just one dictionary, but three, one for each of the major religions which had a stake in the interpretation of the dream which anticipated the end of the empire.
	elab.eserver.org /hfl0239.html (636 words)

	Cover to Cover: Paratextual play in Milorad Pavic's Dictionary of the Khazars
		Dictionary of the Khazars exists in two editions, "male" and "female," and to that extent challenges not only preconceptions of the dictionary form, but also of broader procedures governing book design and publishing, and of readers' consumption of texts.
		Therefore, in their dictionaries the Khazars paid particular attention to mastering these two parts of Adam's body, and it is believed that they even succeeded, but did not have enough time for the other parts.
		Since the paratext is the primary concern here, one should note that it is not beyond the bounds of plausibility to construe the balding man on the cover(s) of the Penguin translation as an Adamic figure, nor to see, in his closed eyes, the difficulty of attaining to the "all-seeing" existence invoked in the passage.
	www.electronicbookreview.com /thread/internetnation/lexicographic (5155 words)

	Abracadabra, à la Khazar! - The World and I Magazine
		The premise of the Dictionary is that the Khazarian nation--lost in an ocean of confusion, lies, and mysterious events--has disappeared from the face of the earth, leaving behind only a dispersed and disarranged dictionary of its language as evidence that its vanished people ever existed.
		The critical telos of the Dictionary is to pose a general civilizational question, namely that of the historical destiny of all nations, whose decay and disappearance are followed by the crumbling and destruction of their languages.
		The strange demise of the Khazars tells us that they were thrown out of life because of their own madness and stupidity, their inability to read and understand the language of history.
	www.worldandi.com /public/1988/november/bk5.cfm (2595 words)

	Introduction
		The Khazars entered the annals of history when they went to war against the Arabs and concluded an alliance with the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius in 627 A.D., but their origins remain unknown and all traces of them have vanished, leaving nothing to show by what name or people one should look for them today.
		The Khazars, and the Khazar state, vanished from the stage of history as a result of the event that is the main concern of this book--their conversion from their original faith, unknown to us today, to one (again, it is not known which) of three known religions of the past and present--Judaism, Islam, or Christianity.
		The publisher of this second edition of The Khazar Dictionary is perfectly aware that Daubmannus' 17th century material is not reliable, that it is largely based on legends, that it is something like a feast eaten in a dream, and that it is caught in a web of various ancient misconceptions.
	thor.prohosting.com /mila18/introduction.htm (3550 words)

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		It is difficult to speak of dictionaries without recalling the notorious definition for lexicographer in Dr. Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755): "A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge..." Johnson's definition is disingenuous, a statement rendered piquant by its inapplicability to himself.
		As the reader weighs up the title he or she might well protest, inwardly, that dictionaries are not narratives, or that they are not supposed to be.
		Dictionaries are pre-eminent within the ranks of the non-fictive.
	www.altx.com /ebr/ebr8/8callus.htm (5011 words)

	Fictional Literature about the Khazars
		The plotline of the novel is partly based on the theories of Arthur Koestler, who chronicled the conversion of the Khazars to Judaism and had claimed that Khazars are the ancestors of Ashkenazic Jews and European Karaims.
		Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavic (New York: Knopf, November 1988).
		A Khazar king debates religion with a Greek philosopher, a Muslim, a Christian, and a Jewish rabbi, and chooses Judaism.
	www.khazaria.com /fiction.html (1920 words)

	Borges - Influence: Milorad Pavic
		His first novel, Dictionary of the Khazars, was written in Serbo-Croatian –; which the Serbs write in one alphabet and the Croats in another – but first published in 1988 in France.
		Dictionary of the Khazars takes as its ostensible subject a people of whom the bare appellation scarcely remains, and an era (the 9c.) so obscure that one revisionist historian (Illig) has suggested that it never even happened.
		The emperor of the Khazars has had a dream, and three holy men one Christian, one Jewish, and one Moslem – are asked to interpret it.
	www.themodernword.com /borges/borges_infl_pavic.html (509 words)

	Dictionary of the Khazars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel is the first novel by Serbian writer Milorad Pavich (Milorad Pavić), published in 1984.
		However, from this starting point, Pavić often veers into his own style of playful, somewhat Borgesian fantasy: most of the characters and events described in the novel are entirely fictional, as is the culture ascribed to the Khazars in the book, which bears little resemblance to any literary or archeological evidence.
		The novel might be a sort of metafictional false document, as the people and events in the novel are presented as factual.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dictionary_of_the_Khazars (344 words)

	Milorad Pavic: Dictionary of the Khazars
		The Khazars were an Asiatic people who settled in the Caucasus in the mid sixth century.
		The story lines are set in the eighth century at the time of the Khazar Polemic, in the seventeenth century surrouding the original publication of the fictional Dictionary of the Khazars, and at an academic conference at the end of the twentieth century.
		Dictionary of the Khazars is one of those books which seems to hold some vast hidden philosophical truth.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/khazars.html (561 words)

	Dictionary of the Khazars by Pavich
		The Khazars are said to be a lost people who flourished somewhere in the Balkans (''beyond the mountains,'' as it were) late in the first millennium.
		Thus, ''there is no clock'' in his ''lexicon novel,'' ''Dictionary of the Khazars,'' even though it traces more than a millennium in the history of a people who lived along the Danube, leaving only a few archeological traces and a few references in 9th- and 12th-century Christian and Jewish sources before they vanished...
		Dictionary of the Khazars is discussed in several enlightening articles in The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Summer 1998, Vol.
	www.khazaria.com /pavic.html (704 words)

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		If so, the Oxford English Dictionary and the BBC need you for their Wordhunt – a call to help find the earliest verifiable usages of a list of words from the past decades whose origin is still uncertain.
		The Dictionary of the Khazars "For all its delights, for all the structural novelty and the comic inventiveness of the imagery, it must be said there is something rather light and airy about this book.
		A dictionary of old hobo slang might be a handy tool to bring along when traveling through North Bank Fred's colorful stories, photos, and chalkings of today's hobo jungles.
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	Psyche: Cosmology of the Khazars
		The Khazars believe that deep in the inky flness of the Caspian Sea there is an eyeless fish that, like a clock, marks the only correct time of the universe.
		In the beginning, according to Khazar legend, all creation, the past and future, all events and things, melted as they swam in the fiery river of time, former and subsequent beings mixing like soap and water.
		There are priests from the sect of Princess Ateh who follow these figures from one dream to another, writing their biographies like the lives of saints or prophets, with their deeds and detailed descriptions of their deaths.
	www.psyche.com /psyche/mt/archives/002474.html (450 words)

	Milorad Pavic
		His multi-layered Dictionary of the Khazars (1984) is considered one of the most intriguing works in postmodernist fiction.
		Hazarski recnik (1984, Dictionary of the Khazars), Pavic's first novel, is a playful mock-history of the Khazars, located somewhere among Turkey, Russia and the Slavic countries to the west.
		The present dictionary is based on a destroyed book, which was reconstructed from the dictionary of the Khazar dream-hunters.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /pavic.htm (1319 words)

	AUTUMN : Your Pampleteer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The process of reading The Dictionary of the Khazars compared to the hypertexts we read in class is that The Dictionary was in a book format, as opposed to Shelley Jackson's works or even the ones in our Postmodernism book.
		The Dictionary of the Khazars seems like a regular novel to me. However, i did try to read it like a hypertext by starting in the middle, then going to the beginning, and concluding with the end.
		My role in the Dictionary of the Khazars was basically just to learn about the characters, read stories the author is trying to make sense of somehow, and then trying to put it all together.
	caxton.stockton.edu /Autumn (3625 words)

	Amazon.com: Dictionary of the Khazars (M): Books: Milorad Pavic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		No, Pavic is not worried about the reality of the Khazars, but in the melding of cultures of the Balkans, the state of Man and God and their relationships to each other, and odd connections that a literate reader makes between multiple books.
		The Dictionary of the Khazars is full of nice, chewy ideas and insights, and reads a bit like a more user-friendly Umberto Eco.
		The 3 sub-books (each an individual dictionary) provide alternate perspectives about entries that serve to flesh out the story, which centers around what is referred to as the "Khazar Polemic"; a debate set forth by the Khazar Khaghan to determine which of the three major religions to adopt: Christianity, Judaism, or Islam.
	www.amazon.com /Dictionary-Khazars-M-Milorad-Pavic/dp/0679724613 (1741 words)

	Khazars - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Khazars, extinct Turkic people, who flourished from about ad200 to about 950, living at first in the region of the Caucasus Mountains and the...
		Dictionary of the Khazars: Milorad Pavić, Serb writer
		Internationally known writers included Ivo Andrić, a Bosnian who won the 1961 Nobel Prize for literature.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Khazars.html (57 words)

	Book Information: Dictionary of the Khazars, a novel-lexicon in 100.000 words (Female Edition) :: Internet Book List :: ...
		Dictionary of the Khazars, a novel-lexicon in 100.000 words (Female Edition) (1984) [novel]
		A national bestseller, Dictionary of the Khazars was cited by The New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of the year.
		Written in two versions, male and female (both available in Vintage International), which are identical save for seventeen crucial lines, Dictionary is the imaginary book of knowledge of the Khazars, a people who flourished somewhere beyond Transylvania sometime between the seventh and ninth centuries.
	www.iblist.com /book2909.htm (142 words)

	FToI: A Dictionary
		The Khazars as they were named were nomadic and warrior like people who had an ancient cult of interpretation of the dreams.
		Interestingly as you have mentioned being from Khazar origin in Israel has political charge, since then one cannot easily claim to be from the original 12 tribes of Israel and hence might not claim the citizenship.
		However the Khazars seemed to be Semitic people originally, and some believe that they might actually be one of the "lost tribes".
	freethoughts.org /archives/000113.php (1445 words)

	TIME.com: Enchanting Folly -- Dec. 5, 1988 -- Page 1
		They are not necessarily the subject of Dictionary of the Khazars.
		Unfortunately, these Khazars began to come to grief when their kaghan (ruler) decided in the eighth or ninth century that they should convert to Christianity, Judaism or Islam.
		In 1691 the surviving documents of this dispute were published as a dictionary, in an edition of 500 copies.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,956437,00.html (636 words)

	Coover review of Khazars
		Such a book Is the Yugoslav poet and scholar Milorad Pavic's witty and playful "Dictionary of the Khazars," which, with Its chronologically disturbed alphabetized entries and its cross-referencing symbols.
		She is a poet, a teacher, a counselor, a magician, a succubus of sorts, a seditionist and a kind of Zen master for whom all truths of this world are self-canceling, that cancellation being the closest one gets to universal truth.
		Pavic suggests, "something like a feast eaten in a dream," it Is a feast for all that, and, faithful to his notion that all books are dreams and readers are dream hunters, an ebullient and generous celebration of the reading experience.
	www.trinity.edu /sbachrac/fys2005/coover.html (1805 words)

	AnyWayTheWindBlows : (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Dictionary of the Khazars, I found that reading the book was sort if the same as reading an electronic hypertext.
		The Dictionary of the Khazars offers to writers of hypertext fiction is this: Writing hypertexts does not need to be difficult.
		The Dictionary of the Khazars is not a terribly complicated hypertext.
	caxton.stockton.edu /anywaythewindblows (4967 words)

	A Dictionary of Maqiao - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Dictionary of Maqiao (Chinese: 马桥词典; Pinyin: Mǎqiáo Cídiǎn) is a novel written by Chinese writer Han Shaogong.
		This novel is written in the form of a dictionary, or more accurately, encyclopedia.
		After this book was published, someones criticised that it violates the copyright of Pavic's book, Dictionary of the Khazars.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/A_Dictionary_of_Maqiao (155 words)

	DICTIONARY OF THE KHAZARS
		DICTIONARY OF THE KHAZARS, A LEXICON NOVEL IN 100,000 WORDS, FEMALE EDITION Lexicon Corsi, a Dictionary of the Dictionaries on the Khazar Question
		The event discussed in this lexicon occurred sometime in the 8th or 9th century A., and this subject is commonly referred to by scholars as 'the Khazar polemic.
		' The Khazars were an autonomous and powerful tribe, a warlike and nomadic people who appeared from the East at an unknown date, driven by a scorching silence, and who, from the 7th to the 10th century, settled in the land between two seas, the Caspian and the Black.
	www.popula.com /items_fp/item_description.cfm?item_fp_ID=239228 (170 words)

	program2002
		Pavič’s novelistic invention entitled Dictionary of the Khazars is a multi-perspective narrative of the Khazar nation, whose traces in historical records are just enough to excite the imagination of the curious.
		The Khazars were an ancient Turkic people who participated in the great westward migrations into the European continent.
		The Khazar Empire extended from the northern shores of the Black and Caspian seas, to the Urals and as far westward as Kiev.
	www.ljudmila.org /exponto/ex2002/hazarskislovar.htm (590 words)

	Amazon.fr : Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel in 100,000 Words/Male Edition: Livres en anglais: Milorad ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Amazon.fr : Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel in 100,000 Words/Male Edition: Livres en anglais: Milorad Pavic,Christina Pribichevich-Zoric
		Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel in 100,000 Words/Male Edition (Broché)
		Available in slightly differing "male" and "female" editions, the narrative purports to be the historical record of the Khazars, a fictional Indo-European tribe that vanished in the 10th century.
	www.amazon.fr /Dictionary-Khazars-Lexicon-Novel-Words/dp/0679724613 (337 words)

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