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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Khazars
		According to the Primary Chronicle, in 986 Khazar Jews were present at Vladimir's disputation to decide on the prospective religion of the Kievian Rus.
		Jewish Khazars were also mentioned in a Georgian chronicle as a group that inhabited Derbent in the late 1100s.
		The Khazar theory has been adopted by many anti-Zionists, especially in the Arab world; such proponents of the theory argue that if Ashkenazi Jews are primarily Khazar in origin, then they would be outside the scope of God's promise of Canaan to Israelites as recorded in the Bible.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Khazars (7217 words)

	Hypertext and Beyond
		Fiction has also played with the concepts behind hypertext, but the non-sequential nature of hypertext has often made it difficult to sustain a narrative.
		Flash and Java allow the text to move and for the reader to interact with submerged elements of the story in ways that were not possible in a traditional hypertext.
		The term Cybertext has been applied to these new fictions to acknowledge their presence on the internet and to recognize their separation from traditional hypertexts.
	www.class.uidaho.edu /narrative/hypertext/hypertext_and_beyond.htm (496 words)

	Cover to Cover: Paratextual play in Milorad Pavic's Dictionary of the Khazars
		That is why the Khazars searched for Adam's body, why the feminine and masculine books of the Khazar dream hunters were a bit like Adam's icons, in which the feminine marked his body, the masculine his blood.
		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)

	Khazars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Khazar warrior with captive, based on reconstruction by Norman Finkelshteyn of image from an 8th-century ewer found at Nagyszentmiklos in Transylvania (original at [1])
		The Khazar claim has also served as a catalyst for state anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union and a justification for conquest by Russian nationalists.
		The question of mass religious conversion is a central theme in Milorad Pavić's international bestselling novel Dictionary of the Khazars.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Khazars (7634 words)

	Writing for the New Millennium
		A growing number of poets and fiction writers are using the personal computer to stretch the boundaries of the written tradition.
		They assemble their own versions of a fictional world in much the same way that they piece together unique, personal versions of the real world from the fragments of their own experience.
		In its purest form, as it arises in the bar after work or at the family dinner table, it must respond to the perplexed question, the raised eyebrow, the stifled yawn, and all the other cues that signal the narrator when to elaborate and when to cut to the chase.
	www.wordcircuits.com /kendall/essays/pw1.htm (4263 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.
		The Wind of the Khazars by Marek Halter (New Milford, Connecticut, USA and London: The Toby Press, October 2003; translation by Michael Bernard).
		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)

	Hypertext Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Whether hypertext fiction is "old" or "new" cannot be solved by investigating lineage, but rather by describing the kind of world that exists to support one or the other way of creating fiction.
		Contemporary fiction has its roots in the long tradition of written fiction, culminating in the story and the novel as the chief contemporary forms.
		The early audience for hypertext fiction consisted in large part, I think, of people who could get just such lessons from their friends or from teachers who were making these experiments (most of the early authors and theorists of hypertext did teach in colleges and universities).
	home.earthlink.net /~hsbecker/lisbon.html (5496 words)

	The Toby Press: The Wind of the Khazars by Marek Halter
		A thousand years later, when the writer Marc Sofer is given an ancient Khazarian coin by a mysterious visitor, he is drawn into investigating the fascinating enigma of the Khazars.
		The story of the Khazars is interwoven with a contemporary political conspiracy in an unusual blend of reality and fiction that explores the ever important themes of history and identity.
		MAREK HALTER was born in Warsaw in 1936.
	www.tobypress.com /books/khazars.htm (312 words)

	Khazaria.com - History of Jewish Khazars, Khazar Turk, Khazarian Jews
		The Khazars are portrayed as having become fully integrated with the mainstream Byzantine Jewish community.
		After their conversion, the Khazar people used Jewish personal names, spoke and wrote in Hebrew, were circumcised, had synagogues and rabbis, studied the Torah and Talmud, and observed Hanukkah, Pesach, and the Sabbath.
		The Khazars were an advanced civilization with one of the most tolerant societies of the medieval period.
	www.khazaria.com (1676 words)

	Welkya - Creation of Slav Script (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Khazars, ancient Turkic people who appeared in Transcaucasia in the 2d cent.
		Their empire came to an end in 965, when they were defeated by the duke of Kiev.
		the Khazar nobility embraced Judaism and thus are believed by some to be the ancestors of many East European Jews.
	www.bulgaria.com /welkya/kritika/slave.html (4235 words)

	A Glossary of Terms Useful in Critiquing Science Fiction
		A Chekhov's gun is a fictional element (threat, character, mystery, prize, challenge) introduced early and with fanfare and in which the author expects the reader to invest.
		Science fiction has more overhead than mainstream fiction: the author is building a world that does not exist so as to stage something which cannot be illustrated in the world that does exist.
		Science fiction uses the real world as a springboard or boomerang; it changes one or more major elements, then builds from that difference, showing us the shadow-side of changing human biology, technology, sociology, or psychology.
	www.sfwa.org /writing/glossary.html (8194 words)

	Review \| The Devil's Larder by Jim Crace
		Food and sex are life's two great physical passions, but for writers of fiction, the latter has always been a much more popular subject than the former.
		Small wonder that they prefer to write about sex: it's so much easier to dramatize the relationship between a woman and her lover than a man and his dinner.
		They also know that he is fond of including invented details in his fiction.
	www.januarymagazine.com /fiction/devilslarder.html (1085 words)

	The Toby Press: Press Release - The Wind of the Khazars
		The story of the Khazars comes to vivid, unforgettable life in Marek Halter's latest novel, an epic saga that spans a thousand years.
		The beautiful Khazarian princess Attex and her story spring to life in his imagination, and we are drawn into their world - but it is the face of the elusive beauty that Attex wears.
		Interweaving the fascinating story of the Khazars with contemporary political intrigue that stretches from England and France to Azerbaijan, THE WIND OF THE KHAZARS (Toby Press, November 5, 2003, $19.95) is an absorbing, dramatic tale-part historical novel, part thriller-blending reality and fiction in a powerful exploration of history and identity.
	www.tobypress.com /press/pr_khazars.htm (394 words)

	Khazars in fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-6.cs.princeton.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Their allure as the most famous group of mass proselytes to Judaism has resulted in many works of speculative fiction dealing with the Khazars, their dealings with other nations, their society and religion.
		Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavić (New York: Knopf, November 1988).
		A Khazar king debates religion with a Neo-Platonic philosopher, a Muslim, a Christian, and a Jewish rabbi, and chooses Judaism.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Khazars_in_fiction (1565 words)

	Amazon.com: The Wind of the Khazars: Books: Marek Halter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Jewish Khazars maintained dominance in the region until near the end of the 10th century at which point the Kievan Russians, who had converted to Christianity and aligned themselves with the Byzantines, overturned the Khazar's rule.
		As readers will discover, Sonja is in fact compared to a fictional 10th-century Khazar-era character, Princess Attex, who also had red hair, and she is deeply involved in preserving the memory of the Khazars.
		The case for Khazars' integration with other Jews grew stronger with the recent discovery that Khazarian Jews married and lived with other Jews in Pera, near Constantinople, in the Byzantine Empire.
	www.amazon.com /Wind-Khazars-Marek-Halter/dp/1592640281 (2170 words)

	Brooks Landon- Hypertext and Science Fiction
		Yet these are all words of vital importance for the study and understanding of late science fiction, if not of contemporary culture, and it may turn out that "hypertext" is the most important of the lot.
		Or, to put this another way, science fiction, the literature with a special relationship to technology, will have to recognize that writing is itself a fundamental technology--one that is undergoing massive change.
		Unlike Storming the Reality Studio or Fiction 2000, BCP brings together pieces of writing that are not contesting with each other to establish a particular take on cyberpunk or to score points for brilliance or critical adroitness.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/review_essays/land61.htm (2936 words)

	NYTimes
		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.
		And, like the other ''students of the Khazar question'' chronicled here, the readers of this book become, ipso facto, initiates into Princess Ateh's dream-hunting cult, invited ''to leave your reports and additions to the Khazar dictionary where all successful dream hunters leave theirs.'' ''It is an open book,'' Mr.
		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.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/98/12/06/specials/pavic-khazars.html (2025 words)

	Editorial, THE SERAPH, Feb 2001, Vol XXI No 6
		Preying on the sentiments of decent people, these unscrupulous "chutzpaniks" never seem to cease their jeremiad bleating on the one hand, and their endless beating verbal bludgeoning of those with the courage to expose their lucrative rackets.
		The only difference between fiction and non-fiction is that the fiction is mostly the embellishments of a subjective imagination.
		When Ruth Gruber fictionalizes history and when the television networks promote this fiction as "historical fact" to millions of unsuspecting viewers, it seems time for all honest people _ especially the spiritual leaders of the people - to raise their voices above a whisper and hold these falsifiers of truth accountable.
	friarsminor.org /xxi6-1.html (1910 words)

	Amazon.com: Dictionary Of The Khazars: Books: Milorad Pavic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The narrative purports to be the historical record of the Khazars, a fictional Indo-European tribe that vanished in the 10th century.
		According to legend, the Khazar ruler asked a rabbi, a monk and a dervish to interpret a portentous dream; the winner would gain the conversion of the Khazar people to Judaism, Christianity or Islam.
		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.
	www.amazon.com /Dictionary-Khazars-Milorad-Pavic/dp/0394571835 (2087 words)

	Fictionsuit: FAQ
		A fictive is a fiction in the clothing of non-fiction.
		Borges' short story Tlon, Uqbar, Orbus Tertius) or glossary of words or slang terms not actually used by any existing people (say, Milorad Pavic's Dictionary of the Khazars, or that rogue journalist who made up a bunch of slang for Seattle grunge musicians in the early '90s and saw it reported as fact in Newsweek).
		Fictionsuit is not so much intended for "the truth about lies" (that is, an encyclopedia about the Hogwarts School or some other pre-existing creation), nor for "lies about the truth" (humor or alternate-history about things that might be in a real encyclopedia - see uncyclopedia.com for that).
	www.fictionsuit.com /front/faq (946 words)

	Interactive Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Interactive Fiction is a term which means different things to different people.
		I played a few games, heard about The Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (IFComp), made some halfhearted attempts at writing stuff, etc. Then in September 1999 I actually finished a game (called Lomalow) and entered it in the 1999 IFComp.
		If any of what you read at any of these places intrigues you, you may also want to check out the newsgroups rec.arts.int-fiction and rec.games.int-fiction (often called raif and rgif respectively), which are the main forums for the discussion of IF.
	www.brenbarn.net /if (336 words)

	Aphorisms for Writing Science Fiction
		John Gardner called this the fictional dream, a story so smoothly told that the reader absorbs the images as if seeing them before his own eyes.
		Much fiction suffers from tactile deficiency because its author is concentrating so hard on moving characters around that he forgets to stage their environment.
		Description, the vegetables of a reader's diet, must be integrated throughout the story and the action.
	www.sfwa.org /writing/aphorisms.html (2004 words)

	Милорад Павић :: khazars.com » Books About Pavic’s Fiction
		Critics choice of a lexicon novel in 100.000 words “Dictionary of the Khazars” by Milorad Pavic, (compiled by Jasmina Tesanovic), Vrsac, Knjizevna opstina Vrsac, 1991, 346 p.
		Interpretation of the Prose of Milorad Pavic, Beograd - Prosveta, Dosije; Titograd - Oktoih; Gornji Milanovac - Decje novine, 1991, 317 p.
		Razgovori sa Miloradom Pavicem / Khazars, or The Renaissance of the Byzantine Novel.
	www.khazars.com /en/fiction (532 words)

	TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE
		In The Hourglass (1972), where the theme is not changed, the narrative technique is brought to the point of virtuosity.
		A Tomb for Boris Davidovic (1976), which brought Kis great acclaim abroad, is narrated as a whole with a skilful interweaving of documentation and fiction about the victims of the Stalinist purges.
		He is a well-known historian of Serbian literature, and he captured the fancy of both domestic and foreign critics and readers with a novel strangely written in the form of a dictionary (Dictionary of the Khazars, 1984).
	suc.suc.org /culture/history/Hist_Serb_Culture/chr/New_Literature.html (8775 words)

	English 8710: Hypertext Fiction & Theory
		What are the relations between, on the one hand, the formal and generic properties of hypertext fiction and, on the other, the technical features of the medium and its organizational units: the node, the byte, the packet?
		Hypertext narratives, though, complicate this sense of displacement, for they indicate the extent to which literature is by no means an antiquated cultural form relegated to the obsolescent spheres of print—it has instead virtually transformed itself and this course will investigate how it has done so.
		Hypertext fiction projects are also welcome, but they should be accompanied by a short (4-5 pp.) critical analysis of the composition.
	www.english.ucsb.edu /faculty/rraley/courses/hypertext-W99.html (1708 words)

	Vintage Catalog \| Dictionary of the Khazars (F) by Milorad Pavic
		Dictionary of the Khazars (F) by Milorad Pavic
		978-0-679-72754-5 (0-679-72754-X) 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 between the seventh and ninth centuries.
	www.randomhouse.com /vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679727545 (124 words)

	Khazars — Infoplease.com
		Leo IV, Byzantine emperor - Leo IV (Leo the Khazar), d.
		Dictionary of the Khazars as an Epistemological Metaphor.(Critical Essay)
		Dictionary of the Khazars as a Khazar Jar.(Critical Essay)
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0827540.html (287 words)

	Intelligent fiction
		The Untouchable - disparaged by Scott on Intelligent Genre Fiction.
		Music In A Foreign Language is one of Scott's Top 10 and one of his Favourite Books and praised again on Modern Scottish Fiction.
		Dictionary Of The Khazars - published in two editions, a "Male" and a "Female" edition, identical apart for one paragrah, according to Alan Simpson, on the House Of Leaves thread.
	groups.msn.com /Intelligentfiction/authorsindex.msnw (5173 words)

	History Bookshop.com: Khazars
		They were culturally much influenced by Central Asian peoples, especially the Khorezm; the Jewish religion predominated, but others were tolerated.
		From the 7th century the Khazar state embraced a vast territory from the Urals to the Carpathians, and from the Caucasus to the rivers Oka and Kama, and was based on control of the trade routes between Byzantium and the Far East, and the Arabic Empire and the Slavic peoples to the north.
		The Khazar state was defeated by the Kievan Prince Svyatoslav in 966 and declined until, after the 12th century, the Khazars were unknown.
	www.historybookshop.com /articles/glossary/khazars.asp (182 words)

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