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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kizilov, Mikhail, author.

Contributor:

Tempczyk, Katarzyna, editor.

Smith, Wayne, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Karaites--Poland.

Karaites.

Lithuania.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (546 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany ; Boston, Massachusetts : De Gruyter, 2015.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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 been living in Eastern Europe since the late Middle Ages, developed a unique ethnographic culture and religious tradition. The book offers the first comprehensive study of the dramatic history of the Polish-Lithuanian Karaite community in the twentieth century. Especially important is the analysis of the dejudaization (or Turkicization) of the community that saved the Karaites from horrors of the Holocaust.

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

3-11-042526-2

OCLC:

912323289