| The Karaites of Galicia: An Ethnoreligious Minority Among the Ashkenazim, the Turks, and the Slavs, 1772-1945 Contributor(s): Kizilov, Mikhail (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004166025 ISBN-13: 9789004166028 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $254.60 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2008 Annotation: Drawing on sources in original languages, the book offers the first comprehensive study of the history, ethnography and convoluted ethnic identity of the Galician Karaites, a non-Talmudic Turkic-speaking minority of Jewish scripturalists. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Jewish - General - History | Europe - General |
| Dewey: 296.81 |
| Series: Studia Judaeoslavica |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.5" W x 9.6" (2.05 lbs) 461 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |