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Zakhor
HistoryFigurec. 915-970

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Physician and diplomat in the service of the Caliph of Córdoba, he was the first great patron of Jewish culture in Spain (Sefarad). His correspondence with the Khazar king Joseph is a unique document on the Jewish kingdom of the Khazars.

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Sources & resources

  • Ph. Luzzatto, Notice sur Abou-Iousouf ?asdai Ibn-Schaprout (1852)
  • « Hasdaï ibn Shaprut », Encyclopaedia Judaica (2ᵉ éd.) (2007)
  • Ashtor, Korot, 1 (1966²), 103–72 (1966)
  • Baron, Social, index to volumes 1–8 (1960), 62 (1960)
  • D.M. Dunlop, The History of the Jewish Khazars (1954)
  • Mann, Texts, index
  • A.N. Pollak, Kazaryah (1951)
  • A. Scheiber &amp
  • Masterpieces of Hebrew Literature: A Treasury of 2000 Years of Jewish Creativity (1969)
  • Z. Malachi, Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research, (1973)
  • Abraham ibn Daud, Sefer ha-Qabbalah (1969)
  • J. Peláez del Rosal, The Jews in Cordoba (1987)
  • O. Pritsak, Khazarian Hebrew Documents of the Tenth Century (1982)
  • N. Golb &amp

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