Published 2009
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.…”
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