Karaites of Galicia

An Ethnoreligious Minority Among the Ashkenazim, the Turks, and the Slavs, 1772-1945

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2008-12-17
Mått160 x 240 x 30 mm
Vikt973 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudia Judaeoslavica
Antal sidor462
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004166028

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Chapter One - Introduction to the Study and the History ofKaraismChapter Two - The Karaites in Austrian Galicia: TheCommunity as Seen from OutsideChapter Three - The Karaites in Austrian Galicia, TheirHistory and Culture: The Community as Seen fromWithinChapter Four - The Galician Karaites, Their Language,Customs, and Traditions: The Community as Seen froman Ethnographic PerspectiveChapter Five - The Karaites and Their Neighbours:Relations with the Christian Population and with theRabbanite JewsChapter Six - Karaites in Polish Galicia between the TwoWorld WarsChapter Seven - Khazar Theory vs. Racial Anthropology:Interwar Turkicization of the Galician Karaites and ItsOutcome during World War IIChapter Eight - The Galician Karaites after Conclusion - The Historical Fate, the Past, and the Futureof the Karaite Community in Eastern Europe