The Karaites of Galicia : an ethnoreligious minority among the Ashkenazim, the Turks, and the Slavs, 1772-1945 / by Mikhail Kizilov.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kizilov, Mikhail, 1974-

Series:

Studia Judaeoslavica 1.

Studia Judacoslavica ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Karaites--Galicia (Poland and Ukraine)--History.

Karaites.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (480 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The book focuses on the history, ethnography, and convoluted ethnic identity of the Karaites, an ethnoreligious group in Eastern Galicia (modern Ukraine). The small community of the Karaite Jews, a non-Talmudic Turkic-speaking minority, who 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 Galician Karaite community from its earliest days until today with the main emphasis placed on the period from 1772 until 1945. Especially important is the analysis of the twentieth-century dejudaization (or Turkicization) of the community, which saved the Karaites from the horrors of the Holocaust.

Contents:

The topicality of studying the Galician Karaites as a vanishing ethnic minority

Literature survey

Methodological difficulties, sources, and objectives of the study

The system of transliteration

Outline of the history of the Galician Karaite community prior to 1772

The Karaites and Toleranzpolitik

The Karaites as the "exemplary Jews" of Austria

The Karaites and the royal family of Austria

Halicz

Kukizow

Lwow-Lemberg and its role in the life of the Galician Karaites from 1772 to 1918

Religio-ethnographic customs and traditions

Karaim, a Turko-Judeo-Slavic language: history, literature, and folklore

The Crimean Karaites and their impact on the religious and everyday life of the Galician community

The Karaites and the Slavic population (Poles and Ruthenians)

The Karaites and the Talmudic Jews

General state of the community after World War I

Interwar ..azzanim, Isaac Abrahamowicz, and the conflicts of the 1920s and early 1930s

The Karaites and their ethnic neighbours

Seraja Szapszal's visit to Halicz in 1929

Seraja Szapszal's reformist activity of the 1930s The visit of Corrado Gini's anthropological expedition and its impact on the development of Szapszal's Turkic theory

Implementation of Szapszal's Turkic doctrine in Halicz and its outcome

The Karaites of Halicz during the Second World War and the Holocaust

Decline of the Galician community after the Second World War

The collapse of the Soviet Union and the last of the Galician Mohicans

The Galician Karaite community and its cultural heritage today.

Notes:

"1876-6153."

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-282-39828-8

9786612398285

90-474-4288-1

OCLC:

593231667

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004166028.i-462 DOI