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0:00 Intro
0:33 Will I do other spotlight episodes?
2:14 JFR Jacob
3:00 Did I go too far in distancing Judaism and Christianity?
6:59 Is the Khazar Khaganate purely legendary?
9:02 Are Crimean Karaites descended from Khazars?
10:26 Is Yiddish a Semitic or Germanic language?
13:43 The shifting meaning of “gaon”
14:42 Antony Blinken and who counts as a Jewish figure
16:16 Naming conventions and “Even Gvirol”
18:36 Correction: Rashi’s commentary on the Bible
19:00 Correction: the Rashi script
19:43 A Jewish demographic breakdown for the 11th century