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

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Kizilov, Mikhail, author (author), Tempczyk, Katarzyna, editor (editor), Smith, Wayne, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Germany ; Boston, Massachusetts : De Gruyter 2015
2015.
Materias:
Karaites > Poland.
Lithuania.
Karaite Studies, Jewish Studies, Holocaust.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009428381106719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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