The Karaites of Galicia : an ethnoreligious minority among the Ashkenazim, the Turks, and the Slavs, 1772-1945 /
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| Author / Creator: | Kizilov, Mikhail, 1974- |
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| Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 461 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English Multiple |
| Series: | Studia Judaeoslavica, 1876-6153 ; v. 1 Studia Judaeoslavica ; v. 1. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11205922 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 461 pages) : illustrations |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9789047442882 9047442881 9004166025 9789004166028 6612398280 9786612398285 |
| ISSN: | 1876-6153 ; |