Bibliographia Karaitica

Barry Dov Walfish, Ph.D. (1983) in Medieval Jewish Studies, University of Toronto, is Judaica Specialist at the University of Toronto Libraries. He has published on Karaism and the history of Jewish biblical interpretation, including Esther in Medieval Garb (SUNY Press, 1993). 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).

• CONTENTSPART ONE: GENERALIACHAPTER ONE: MANUSCRIPTS, ARCHIVES, BIBLIOGRAPHIES, PRINTINGCHAPTER TWO: GENERAL WORKSCHAPTER THREE: THE MODERN STUDY OF KARAISMPART TWO: HISTORYCHAPTER FOUR: HISTORY—GENERALCHAPTER FIVE: HISTORY—ORIGINS AND EARLY DEVELOPMENTCHAPTER SIX: MIDDLE EASTCHAPTER SEVEN: KARAITES IN ERETS ISRAEL (9th c. to 1948)CHAPTER EIGHT: KARAITES IN EGYPT AND NORTH AFRICACHAPTER NINE: KARAITES IN BYZANTIUM AND TURKEYCHAPTER TEN: KARAITES IN MODERN ISRAELCHAPTER ELEVEN: KARAITES IN EASTERN EUROPECHAPTER TWELVE: BIOGRAPHIES OF EAST EUROPEAN KARAITESCHAPTER THIRTEEN: CRIMEA: THE MAJOR CENTER OF EAST EUROPEAN KARAISMCHAPTER FOURTEEN: THE REST OF EASTERN EUROPE: POLAND, LITHUANIA, RUSSIA, UKRAINECHAPTER FIFTEEN: KARAITES IN THE REST OF THE WORLDPART THREE: RELIGIONCHAPTER SIXTEEN: KARAITES AND THE BIBLECHAPTER SEVENTEEN: KARAITE HALAKHAH AND PRACTICECHAPTER EIGHTEEN: PRAYER, LITURGY AND PIYYUTCHAPTER NINETEEN: SERMONSCHAPTER TWENTY: KARAITE PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGYCHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: KARAITES AND RABBANITESCHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: KARAITES AND OTHERS: JEWISH GROUPS, SECTS, MOVEMENTS, AND OTHER RELIGIONSPART FOUR: CULTURECHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: KARAITES IN RELATION TO HEBREW AND OTHER SEMITIC LANGUAGESCHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: LITERATURE BY AND ABOUT KARAITESCHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: TURKIC LANGUAGES OF THE EAST EUROPEAN KARAITESCHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: LITERATURE IN THE TURKIC LANGUAGES OF THE EAST EUROPEAN KARAITESCHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: KARAITE ETHNOGRAPHY AND FOLKLORECHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: KARAITE EDUCATIONCHAPTER TWENTY-NINE: KARAITES AND THE ARTSCHAPTER THIRTY: KARAITES IN SCIENCE, MEDICINE, AGRICULTURE, AND INDUSTRY