The sons of scripture : : the Karaites in Poland and Lithuania in the twentieth century /

The sons of scripture : : the Karaites in Poland and Lithuania in the twentieth century / / Mikhail Kizilov ; managing editor, Katarzyna Tempczyk ; language editor, Wayne Smith.

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Drawing on the variety of archival sources in the host of European and Oriental languages, the book focuses on the history, ethnography, and convoluted ethnic identity of the Polish-Lithuanian Karaites. The vanishing community of the Karaites, a non-Talmudic Turkic-speaking Jewish minority that had...

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VerfasserIn:
Kizilov, Mikhail,
TeilnehmendeR:
Tempczyk, Katarzyna,
Smith, Wayne,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin, Germany ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : De Gruyter,, 2015.
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (546 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Front matter
  • Contents
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Between the Israelites and the Khazars: 1900-1918
  • 3 Interwar Period (1919-1939): the Victory of the Khazar Theory
  • 4 Ḥakham (Ḥakhan) Seraja Szapszał (1873-1961) and His Role in Shaping of the Turkic Identity of the Polish-Lithuanian Karaite Community
  • 5 Between Scylla and Charybdis: Polish-Lithuanian Karaites between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union (1939-1945)
  • 6 From the Soviet Stagnation to the Post-Soviet Renaissance (1945-2014)
  • 7 Conclusion
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • List of Illustrations
  • Name Index
  • Geographic Index

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