| The Sons of Scripture The Karaites in Poland and Lithuania in the Twentieth Century Contributor(s): Kizilov, Mikhail (Author) |
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ISBN: 3110425254 ISBN-13: 9783110425253 Publisher: Walter de Gruyter OUR PRICE: $237.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Jainism - Religion | Judaism - General - History | Holocaust |
| Dewey: 296.8 |
| Physical Information: 1.63" H x 7" W x 10" (3.28 lbs) 546 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Jewish - Topical - Holocaust |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |