Bibliography of Khazar Studies, 1901-Present
Compiled by Kevin Alan Brook

Section 8: Khazarian Culture

See also Chapter 4 of The Jews of Khazaria


FOLKLORE AND CUSTOMS

In English:
        Frazer, Sir James. "The Killing of the Khazar Kings." Folklore: A Quarterly Review of Myth, Tradition, Institution and Custom (London) 28 (1917): 382-407.


CULTURE

In Russian:
        Got'e, Yu. V. "Xazarskaya kul'tura." Noviy Vostok No. 8-9 (Moscow, 1925): around p. 292.


ARTWORK

In Bulgarian:
        Flyorova, Valentina Yevgen'ievna. "Xazarskie miniatyury." Problemi na izkustvoto/Art Studies Quarterly 3/2007 (2007): 20-25?. Interprets Khazarian art miniatures by considering calendar systems and the motif of the World Tree and finds influences of Sogdian art on Khazarian art.
        Fonyakova, Natalia A. "Xazarskoye serebro (traditsii i innovatsii)." Problemi na izkustvoto/Art Studies Quarterly 3/2007 (2007): 32-37?. Analyzes Khazarian (Saltovo) decorative art on silver related to the lotus palm tree motif.
        Minaeva, Oksana. "Za polyata na Xazariya v kontaktite na izkustvoto na pârvoto Bâlgarsko tsarstvo s rannoislyamskoto izkustvo." In Bâlgari i Xazari: Prez Rannoto Srednovekovie, ed. Tsvetelin Stepanov, pp. 158-172. Sofia: TANGRA TanNakRa, 2003. The role of Khazaria as a transmitter of Islamic artistic inspirations to Danube Bulgarians.

In English:
        Çerezci, Jale Özlem Oktay. "The Combat Scenes of Khazar Period Art." In Turkish Art History Studies, eds. N. Çiçek Akçil Harmankaya and Ayşe Denknalbant Çobanoğlu, pp. 11-36. Istanbul: Kitabevi Yayinlari, 2019.
        Flyorova, Valentina Yevgen'ievna and Flyorov, Valerii Sergeevich. "Antler Reliquary from the Territory of the Khazar Kaganate: (A Unique Subject with One-Legged Spirits)." Anthropology and Archeology of Eurasia 45:1 (Summer 2006): 49-64. Translation by Laura Esther Wolfson of "Rogovoy relikvariy s territorii Khazarskogo kaganata (Unikal'niy syuzhet s odnonogimi dúkhami)."
        Petrukhin, Vladimir Iakovlevich. "The Early History of Old Russian Art: The Rhyton from Chernigov and Khazarian Tradition." Tor 27:2 (1995): 475-486.

In French:
        László, Gyula. L'Art des Nomades. Des Scythes aux Hongrois. Paris: Cercle d'art, 1972.

In Russian:
        Darkevich, Vladislav Petrovich. "Kovsh iz Khazarii i tyurkskiy geroicheskiy epos." Kratkie Soobshcheniya Instituta Arkheologii Akademii Nauk SSSR 140 (Moscow, 1974): 28-32.
        Flyorova (Flyorova-Naxapetyan), Valentina Yevgen'ievna. Graffiti Khazarii. Moscow: Editorial URSS, 1997. Discusses over 3000 drawings on stones, bricks, bones, pottery, and wood from the Khazar Empire.
        Flyorova, Valentina Yevgen'ievna and Flyorov, Valerii Sergeevich. "Rogovoy relikvariy s territorii Khazarskogo kaganata (Unikal'niy syuzhet s odnonogimi dúkhami)." Rossiyskaya arkheologiya (2005) No. 2: 56-65. About the images on an antler reliquary from an unknown burial in Khazaria that include one-legged anthropomorphic non-human spirits with horse hooves instead of fingers, a horse-shaped spirit with human feet instead of hooves, and a normal horse with a saddle.
        Fonyakova, Natalia A. "Izovrazhenie odnogo zabitogo obichaya na xazarskom sosude iz Kotskogo gorodka." Donskaya Arkheologiya No. 3-4 (2001): 67-71. About artwork from a Khazarian silver dipper from Kotsk.
        Fonyakova, Natalia A. "K semantike Shilovskikh plastin." Povolzhskaya Arkheologiya / The Volga River Region Archaeology 1:3 (2013): 166-180. Discusses and shows bone plates from Shilovka that include Khazar art.
        Glebov, Vyacheslav Petrovich, and Ivanov, Aleksey A. "Kochevnicheskoye pogrebenie xazarskogo vremeni iz mogil'nika Taloviy II." In Srednevekovie drevnosti Dona: Sbornik statey, pp. 154-176. Moscow: Mosty kul'tury and Jerusalem: Gesharim, 2007. About a Khazarian reliquary that contains artistic representations of an epic battle between a horseback warrior and a foot soldier.
        Glebov, Vyacheslav Petrovich, and Ivanov, Aleksey A. "Relikvarii iz kochevnicheskogo pogrebeniya xazarskogo vremeni na nizhnem Donu." Problemi na izkustvoto/Art Studies Quarterly 3/2007 (2007): 12-16?. About a Khazarian reliquary that contains artistic representations of an epic battle between a horseback warrior and a foot soldier.
        Lifanov, Nikolai Aleksandrovich. "O proiskhozhdenii obraza drakonov na plastine iz shilovskogo mogil'nika." Povolzhskaya Arkheologiya / The Volga River Region Archaeology 2:20 (2017): 91-107. Compares the Khazarian image of a dragon on a bone plate from the Shilovka burial mound with artworks from other cultures.
        Petrukhin, Vladimir Iakovlevich. "K nachal'noy istorii russkogo iskusstva." In Etnoyazikovaya i etnokul'turnaya istoriya Vostochnoy Yevropi, pp. 201-230. Russia: Indrik, 1995.

In Turkish:
        Çerezci, Jale Özlem Oktay. "Hazar Dönemi Sanatında Şamanizm İzleri." In Bozkırın Oğlu Ahmet Taşağıl'a Armağan, ed. Tuğba Eray Biber, pp. 249-264. Istanbul: Yeditepe Yayınevi, 2019. On shamanistic traces in Khazar era art.


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