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The Sons of Scripture (Kizilov, Mikhail)
The Sons of Scripture
Untertitel The Karaites in Poland and Lithuania in the Twentieth Century
Autor Kizilov, Mikhail
Verlag De Gruyter Open Poland
Sprache Englisch
Einband Fester Einband
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
Seiten 546 S.
Artikelnummer 18343454
ISBN 978-3-11-042525-3
Auflage 15001 A. 1. Auflage
CHF 199.00
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Zusammenfassung
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.

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