UID:
edocfu_9958088640702883
Format:
1 online resource (546 pages) :
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illustrations
ISBN:
3-11-042526-2
Content:
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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Front matter --
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Contents --
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List of Abbreviations --
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Foreword --
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Acknowledgements --
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1 Introduction --
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2 Between the Israelites and the Khazars: 1900-1918 --
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3 Interwar Period (1919-1939): the Victory of the Khazar Theory --
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4 Ḥakham (Ḥakhan) Seraja Szapszał (1873-1961) and His Role in Shaping of the Turkic Identity of the Polish-Lithuanian Karaite Community --
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5 Between Scylla and Charybdis: Polish-Lithuanian Karaites between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union (1939-1945) --
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6 From the Soviet Stagnation to the Post-Soviet Renaissance (1945-2014) --
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7 Conclusion --
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Glossary --
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Bibliography --
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List of Illustrations --
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Name Index --
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Geographic Index
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Also available in print form.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-11-042525-4
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110425260
