The Karaites of Galicia

An Ethnoreligious Minority Among the Ashkenazim, the Turks, and the Slavs, 1772-1945
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-90-04-16602-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 461 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 930 g

Reihe: Studia Judaeoslavica

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kizilov, Mikhail

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter One - Introduction to the Study and the History of
Karaism
Chapter Two - The Karaites in Austrian Galicia: The
Community as Seen from Outside
Chapter Three - The Karaites in Austrian Galicia, Their
History and Culture: The Community as Seen from
Within
Chapter Four - The Galician Karaites, Their Language,
Customs, and Traditions: The Community as Seen from
an Ethnographic Perspective
Chapter Five - The Karaites and Their Neighbours:

Relations with the Christian Population and with the
Rabbanite Jews
Chapter Six - Karaites in Polish Galicia between the Two
World Wars
Chapter Seven - Khazar Theory vs. Racial Anthropology:

Interwar Turkicization of the Galician Karaites and Its
Outcome during World War II
Chapter Eight - The Galician Karaites after
Conclusion - The Historical Fate, the Past, and the Future
of the Karaite Community in Eastern Europe

Über Autor(innen)

Mikhail Kizilov, D.Phil (2007) in Modern History, University of Oxford, is a Kreitmann Fellow at Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Beer Sheva). He has more than 60 publications on Karaite, Crimean, Khazar, and Jewish history in the English, Russian, German, and Hebrew languages including The Karaites Through the Travelers' Eyes (New York, 2003).