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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The Sons of Scripture
The Karaites in Poland and Lithuania in the Twentieth Century
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Theology & ReligionSubtopic
Holocaust HistoryTable of 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 theKhazar Theory
- 4 Ḥakham (Ḥakhan) Seraja Szapszał (1873–1961)and His Role in Shaping of the Turkic Identity of thePolish-Lithuanian Karaite Community
- 5 Between Scylla and Charybdis: Polish-LithuanianKaraites between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union(1939-1945)
- 6 From the Soviet Stagnation to the Post-SovietRenaissance (1945-2014)
- 7 Conclusion
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- List of Illustrations
- Name Index
- Geographic Index
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