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

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

Kizilov, Mikhail

Hardcover

JudaismHolocaustJainism

ISBN10: 3110425254
ISBN13: 9783110425253
Publisher: De Gruyter Brill Inc
Published: May 21 2015
Pages: 546
Weight: 3.28
Height: 1.63 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English

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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