The Sons of Scripture : The Karaites in Poland and Lithuania in the Twentieth Century / Mikhail Kizilov.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: Warsaw ; Berlin : De Gruyter Open Poland, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (546 p.)Content type:- text
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Frontmatter -- 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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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.
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