- Summary
- 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 the dejudaization of the community that saved the Karaites from horrors of the Holocaust.
- Format
- Online resource
- Author/Creator
- Kizilov, Mikhail, 1974- author.
- Published
- Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2015
©2015
- Locale
- Poland
Lithuania
- Contents
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Introduction
Between the Israelites and the Khazars: 1900-1918
Interwar Period (1919-1939): the victory of the Khazar Theory
Hakham (Hakham) Seraja Szapszat (1873-1961) and his role in shaping of the Turkic identity of the Polish-Lithuanian Karaite community
Between Scylla and Charybis: Polish-Lithuanian Karaites between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union (1939-1945)
From the Soviet stagnation to the post-Soviet renaissance (1945-2014)
Conclusion.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Tempczyk, Katarzyna, editor.
Smith, Wayne, editor.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Between the Israelites and the Khazars: 1900-1918 -- Interwar Period (1919-1939): the victory of the Khazar Theory -- Hakham (Hakham) Seraja Szapszat (1873-1961) and his role in shaping of the Turkic identity of the Polish-Lithuanian Karaite community -- Between Scylla and Charybis: Polish-Lithuanian Karaites between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union (1939-1945) -- From the Soviet stagnation to the post-Soviet renaissance (1945-2014) -- Conclusion.
