The Sons of Scripture: The Karaites in Poland and Lithuania in the Twentieth Century - Couverture rigide

Kizilov, Mikhail

 
9783110425253: The Sons of Scripture: The Karaites in Poland and Lithuania in the Twentieth Century

Synopsis

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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À propos de l?auteur

Mikhail Kizilov, Sosland Fellow of the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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