title: Discussions on the affiliation of the religious beliefs of the Khazars and Karaites to Judaism in the works of religious scholars and Jewish theologians
abstract: The author in the article raises the issue of changing the confessional attitude towards the alleged ethnic religion of the Khazars and the dogma of the ethnic religion of the Karaites. The author pays special attention to the regularities of the emergence and development of the tendency to identify these creeds with Judaism, despite significant dogmatic differences and differences in rituals. Considering the use of historical sources by Jewish ideologists and scientists to substantiate the theo
journal: THE KAZAN SOCIALLY-HUMANITARIAN BULLETIN