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Menahem (Khazar)

Khazar ruler of the late 9th century.; the son of Aaron I and the father of Benjamin

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 13, 2025
Entity authorityQ16911432 ↗
Source-derived summary

Menahem ben Aaron was a Khazar ruler of the late 9th century. He was the son of Aaron I and the father of Benjamin.

Sources

Kevin Alan Brook. The Jews of Khazaria. 2nd ed. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, 2006.

Douglas M. Dunlop, The History of the Jewish Khazars, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1954.

Norman Golb and Omeljan Pritsak, Khazarian Hebrew Documents of the Tenth Century. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1982.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Menahem (Khazar)” is khazar ruler of the late 9th century.; the son of Aaron I and the father of Benjamin. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Menahem, Khazar and ruler, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006, 1954, 1982—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Menahem, Khazar and ruler is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 13, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q16911432. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2006, 1954 and 1982.

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This entry incorporates text from “Menahem (Khazar)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.