The sons of scripture : the Karaites in Poland and Lithuania in the twentieth century / Mikhail Kizilov ; managing editor, Katarzyna Tempczyk ; language editor, Wayne Smith.
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 comm...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Germany ; Boston, Massachusetts :
De Gruyter,
2015.
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| Series: | Online access: De Gruyter De Gruyter Open Books.
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| Summary: | 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 the dejudaization of the community that saved the Karaites from horrors of the Holocaust. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (546 pages) : illustrations, photographs. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783110487305 3110487306 9783110425260 3110425262 3110425254 9783110425253 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 11, 2015) |