Karaites of Galicia

An Ethnoreligious Minority Among the Ashkenazim, the Turks, and the Slavs, 1772-1945

AvMikhail Kizilov

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

Del 1 i serien Studia Judaeoslavica

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Beskrivning

The book focuses on the history, ethnography, and convoluted ethnic identity of the Karaites, an ethnoreligious group in Eastern Galicia (modern Ukraine). The small community of the Karaite Jews, a non-Talmudic Turkic-speaking minority, who 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 Galician Karaite community from its earliest days until today with the main emphasis placed on the period from 1772 until 1945. Especially important is the analysis of the twentieth-century dejudaization (or Turkicization) of the community, which saved the Karaites from the horrors of the Holocaust.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2008-12-17
Mått:160 x 240 x 30 mm
Vikt:973 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studia Judaeoslavica
Antal sidor:462
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004166028

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Mikhail Kizilov, D.Phil (2007) in Modern History, University of Oxford, is a Kreitmann Fellow at Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Beer Sheva). He has more than 60 publications on Karaite, Crimean, Khazar, and Jewish history in the English, Russian, German, and Hebrew languages including The Karaites Through the Travelers' Eyes (New York, 2003).

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter One - Introduction to the Study and the History ofKaraismChapter Two - The Karaites in Austrian Galicia: TheCommunity as Seen from OutsideChapter Three - The Karaites in Austrian Galicia, TheirHistory and Culture: The Community as Seen fromWithinChapter Four - The Galician Karaites, Their Language,Customs, and Traditions: The Community as Seen froman Ethnographic PerspectiveChapter Five - The Karaites and Their Neighbours:Relations with the Christian Population and with theRabbanite JewsChapter Six - Karaites in Polish Galicia between the TwoWorld WarsChapter Seven - Khazar Theory vs. Racial Anthropology:Interwar Turkicization of the Galician Karaites and ItsOutcome during World War IIChapter Eight - The Galician Karaites after Conclusion - The Historical Fate, the Past, and the Futureof the Karaite Community in Eastern Europe