TY - BOOK ID - 77934811 TI - The Karaites of Galicia : an ethnoreligious minority among the Ashkenazim, the Turks, and the Slavs, 1772-1945 PY - 2009 SN - 1282398288 9786612398285 9047442881 9789047442882 9004166025 9789004166028 6612398280 9789004166028 PB - Boston : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Karaites KW - Baʻale Miḳra KW - Baʻalei Mikra KW - Bene Miḳra KW - Benei Mikra KW - Karaʾim (Jewish sect) KW - Karaism KW - Karaitism KW - Jewish sects KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77934811 AB - The book focuses on the history, ethnography, and convoluted ethnic identity of the Karaites, an ethnoreligious group in Eastern Galicia (modern Ukraine). The small community of the Karaite Jews, a non-Talmudic Turkic-speaking minority, who 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 Galician Karaite community from its earliest days until today with the main emphasis placed on the period from 1772 until 1945. Especially important is the analysis of the twentieth-century dejudaization (or Turkicization) of the community, which saved the Karaites from the horrors of the Holocaust. ER -