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Kizilov Mikhail |
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The sons of scripture : the Karaites in Poland and Lithuania in the twentieth century / / Mikhail Kizilov ; managing editor, Katarzyna Tempczyk ; language editor, Wayne Smith |
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Berlin, Germany ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : De Gruyter, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (546 pages) : illustrations |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Karaites - Poland |
Lithuania |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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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