The Karaites of Galicia : an ethnoreligious minority among the Ashkenazim, the Turks, and the Slavs, 1772-1945 /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2009
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| Series: | Studia Judacoslavica ;
v. 1 |
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Table of Contents:
- The topicality of studying the Galician Karaites as a vanishing ethnic minority
- Literature survey
- Methodological difficulties, sources, and objectives of the study
- The system of transliteration
- Outline of the history of the Galician Karaite community prior to 1772
- The Karaites and Toleranzpolitik
- The Karaites as the "exemplary Jews" of Austria
- The Karaites and the royal family of Austria
- Halicz
- Kukizów
- Lwów-Lemberg and its role in the life of the Galician Karaites from 1772 to 1918
- Religio-ethnographic customs and traditions
- Karaim, a Turko-Judeo-Slavic language: history, literature, and folklore
- The Crimean Karaites and their impact on the religious and everyday life of the Galician community
- The Karaites and the Slavic population (Poles and Ruthenians)
- The Karaites and the Talmudic Jews
- General state of the community after World War I
- Interwar .azzanim, Isaac Abrahamowicz, and the conflicts of the 1920s and early 1930s
- The Karaites and their ethnic neighbours
- Seraja Szapszal's visit to Halicz in 1929
- Seraja Szapszal's reformist activity of the 1930s The visit of Corrado Gini's anthropological expedition and its impact on the development of Szapszal's Turkic theory
- Implementation of Szapszal's Turkic doctrine in Halicz and its outcome
- The Karaites of Halicz during the Second World War and the Holocaust
- Decline of the Galician community after the Second World War
- The collapse of the Soviet Union and the last of the Galician Mohicans
- The Galician Karaite community and its cultural heritage today