The sons of scripture : the Karaites in Poland and Lithuania in the twentieth century / Mikhail Kizilov
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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| Main Authors: | Kizilov, Michail Borisovič (Author) |
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| Format: | Online-Resource |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Warsaw ; Berlin : De Gruyter Open, [2015] |
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| Online Access: | kostenfrei Volltext kostenfrei Inhaltsverzeichnis Cover Cover |
| 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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| Item Description: | open access |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (527 Seiten) Also available in print edition Electronic reproduction; Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9783110425260 |
