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CALL FOR SUPPORT - Turkic Jewish Documentary Project  

THE KHAZARIA PROJECT: 
Early Turkic Jewish Communities in Eastern Europe 

Researchers at the University of Chicago are working with Russian 
archaeologists and Jewish historians on a comprehensive archival and 
documentary project involving medieval Turkic Jewish people of Ukraine, 
Crimea, and southern Russia. 

Next month, a team of scholars is going to Kerch on the Crimean peninsula 
and Krasnodar in the north Caucasus to photograph 70 Jewish grave 
headstones inscribed in the 7th and 8th centuries. These pictures will be 
brought to the United States, analyzed, and published in an archaeological 
report. 

The Kerch and Krasnodar expedition is just one of several planned projects 
over the next three years to enhance our understanding of early Turkic 
Jewish settlements in the lands of eastern Europe. Russian historians are 
planning to explore the possible find of a synagogue at Sarkel along the 
Don River as well as reexamine documents in St. Petersburg and in museums 
all over Russia. This project will involve at least 800-1000 artifacts 
and will be an ongoing work over approximately 27 months timespan. The 
resulting work will be catalogued on CD-ROM as well as available in 
printed form. 

We are seeking donations from $10 and up. 
All contributors will receive regular updates on the progress of the 
expeditions and will receive free copies of the final reports. 

Your donation will help preserve the historical and archaeological relics 
of the Khazar Turks. 

For further details on the exciting opportunity ahead, 
please contact: 
Kevin A. Brook 
kbrook@acad.bryant.edu 

Please give your name, telephone number, and mailing address. Donations 
will be accepted after the bank account is established, probably by July 
14th. Among the scholars working on this project are Norman Golb, Omeljan 
Pritsak, Svetlana Pletnyeva, and Vladimir Petrukhin of Moscow. This is the 
most important and most comprehensive Turkic Jewish artifacts survey of 
the entire century. 

Representative contact: Kevin A. Brook, P.O. Box 1631, 1150 Douglas Pike, 
Smithfield, RI 02917 USA