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Mikhail Kizilov

The Sons of Scripture


The Karaites in Poland and Lithuania in the Twentieth Century
2015. 546 S. 5 b/w and 8 col. ill. 240 mm
Verlag/Jahr: DE GRUYTER 2015
ISBN: 3-11-042525-4 (3110425254)
Neue ISBN: 978-3-11-042525-3 (9783110425253)

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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.
"The fact that Kizilov used numerous unknown archival sources, which he had been for years collecting in various archives and libraries, makes his study especially valuable."Golda Akhiezer in: Judaica 4/1015
Mikhail Kizilov, Sosland Fellow of the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.