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The Karaites of Galicia: An Ethnoreligious Minority Among the Ashkenazim, the Turks, and the Slavs, 1772-1945 Hardcover - 2008

by Mikhail Kizilov


From the publisher

Includes bibliographical references. 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).

From the rear cover

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.

Details

  • Title The Karaites of Galicia: An Ethnoreligious Minority Among the Ashkenazim, the Turks, and the Slavs, 1772-1945
  • Author Mikhail Kizilov
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 461
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Brill
  • Date 2008-11
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9789004166028 / 9004166025
  • Weight 2.05 lbs (0.93 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.6 x 6.5 x 1.2 in (24.38 x 16.51 x 3.05 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
  • Dewey Decimal Code 296.81

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Citations

  • Reference and Research Bk News, 05/01/2009, Page 16

About the author

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).