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: | xvii, 461 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studia Judaeoslavica , 1876-6153 ; v. 1 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7641460 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1. Introduction to the Study and the History of Karaism
- 1.1. The Topicality of Studying the Galician Karaites as a Vanishing Ethnic Minority
- 1.2. Literature Survey
- 1.3. Methodological Difficulties, Sources, and Objectives of the Study
- 1.4. The System of Transliteration
- 1.5. Outline of the History of the Galician Karaite Community Prior to 1772
- Chapter 2. The Karaites in Austrian Galicia: The Community as Seen from Outside
- 2.1. The Karaites and Toleranzpolitik
- 2.2. The Karaites as the "Exemplary Jews" of Austria
- 2.3. The Karaites and the Royal Family of Austria
- Chapter 3. The Karaites in Austrian Galicia, Their History and Culture: The Community as Seen from Within
- 3.1. Halicz
- 3.2. Kukizow
- 3.3. Lwow-Lemberg and Its Role in the Life of the Galician Karaites from 1772 to 1918
- Chapter 4. The Galician Karaites, Their Language, Customs, and Traditions: The Community as Seen from an Ethnographic Perspective
- 4.1. Religio-Ethnographic Customs and Traditions
- 4.2. Karaim, a Turko-Judeo-Slavic Language: History, Literature, and Folklore
- 4.3. The Crimean Karaites and Their Impact on the Religious and Everyday Life of the Galician Community
- Chapter 5. The Karaites and Their Neighbours: Relations with the Christian Population and with the Rabbanite Jews
- 5.1. The Karaites and the Slavic Population (Poles and Ruthenians)
- 5.2. The Karaites and the Talmudic Jews
- Chapter 6. Karaites in Polish Galicia between the Two World Wars
- 6.1. General State of the Community after World War I
- 6.2. Interwar Hazzanim, Isaac Abrahamowicz, and the Conflicts of the 1920s and Early 1930s
- 6.3. The Karaites and Their Ethnic Neighbours
- Chapter 7. Khazar Theory vs. Racial Anthropology: Interwar Turkicization of the Galician Karaites and Its Outcome during World War II
- 7.1. Seraja Szapszal's Visit to Halicz in 1929
- 7.2. Seraja Szapszal's Reformist Activity of the 1930s
- 7.3. The Visit of Corrado Gini's Anthropological Expedition and Its Impact on the Development of Szapszal's Turkic Theory
- 7.4. Implementation of Szapszal's Turkic Doctrine in Halicz and Its Outcome
- 7.5. The Karaites of Halicz during the Second World War and the Holocaust
- Chapter 8. The Galician Karaites after 1945
- 8.1. Decline of the Galician Community after the Second World War
- 8.2. The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Last of the Galician Mohicans
- 8.3. The Galician Karaite Community and Its Cultural Heritage Today
- Conclusion The Historical Fate, the Past, and the Future of the Karaite Community in Eastern Europe
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Appendices
- Index
- Plates