The Sons of Scripture: The Karaites in Poland and Lithuania in the Twentieth Century

Mikhail Kizilov

Open Access Published by De Gruyter Open Poland 2015

The Sons of Scripture

The Karaites in Poland and Lithuania in the Twentieth Century

Mikhail Kizilov

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110425260

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Mikhail Kizilov, Sosland Fellow of the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Reviews

"The fact that Kizilov used numerous unknown archival sources, which he had been for years collecting in various archives and libraries, makes his study especially valuable."
Golda Akhiezer in: Judaica 4/1015

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Foreword Publicly Available Download PDF	xiv
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
1 Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	1
2 Between the Israelites and the Khazars: 1900–1918 Publicly Available Download PDF	34
3 Interwar Period (1919-1939): the Victory of the Khazar Theory Publicly Available Download PDF	109
4 Ḥakham (Ḥakhan) Seraja Szapszał (1873–1961) and His Role in Shaping of the Turkic Identity of the Polish-Lithuanian Karaite Community Publicly Available Download PDF	216
5 Between Scylla and Charybdis: Polish-Lithuanian Karaites between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union (1939-1945) Publicly Available Download PDF	293
6 From the Soviet Stagnation to the Post-Soviet Renaissance (1945-2014) Publicly Available Download PDF	369
7 Conclusion Publicly Available Download PDF	449
Glossary Publicly Available Download PDF	463
Bibliography Publicly Available Download PDF	465
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	513
Name Index Publicly Available Download PDF	514
Geographic Index Publicly Available Download PDF	524

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Open Poland
Audience: Scholars of ethnic minorities,specialists in Eastern European studies, Jewish and Karaite studies, Holocaust,
Pages
- Main content: 546
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 5
- Coloured Illustrations: 8
Keywords: Karaite Studies; Jewish Studies; Holocaust

eBook

Published: July 24, 2015
ISBN: 9783110425260

Hardcover

Published: June 16, 2015
ISBN: 9783110425253