The Karaites of Galicia
An Ethnoreligious Minority Among the Ashkenazim, the Turks, and the Slavs, 1772-1945
Biographical note
Mikhail Kizilov, D.Phil (2007) in Modern History, University of Oxford, is a Kreitmann Fellow at Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Beer Sheva). He has more than 60 publications on Karaite, Crimean, Khazar, and Jewish history in the English, Russian, German, and Hebrew languages including The Karaites Through the Travelers' Eyes (New York, 2003).
Readership
All those interested in the history of Judaism, Jews and ethnic minorities in Eastern Europe, theories of nationalism, and the Khazars and problems of their Judaization.
Table of contents
Chapter One - Introduction to the Study and the History of
Karaism
Chapter Two - The Karaites in Austrian Galicia: The
Community as Seen from Outside
Chapter Three - The Karaites in Austrian Galicia, Their
History and Culture: The Community as Seen from
Within
Chapter Four - The Galician Karaites, Their Language,
Customs, and Traditions: The Community as Seen from
an Ethnographic Perspective
Chapter Five - The Karaites and Their Neighbours:
Relations with the Christian Population and with the
Rabbanite Jews
Chapter Six - Karaites in Polish Galicia between the Two
World Wars
Chapter Seven - Khazar Theory vs. Racial Anthropology:
Interwar Turkicization of the Galician Karaites and Its
Outcome during World War II
Chapter Eight - The Galician Karaites after
Conclusion - The Historical Fate, the Past, and the Future
of the Karaite Community in Eastern Europe
Karaism
Chapter Two - The Karaites in Austrian Galicia: The
Community as Seen from Outside
Chapter Three - The Karaites in Austrian Galicia, Their
History and Culture: The Community as Seen from
Within
Chapter Four - The Galician Karaites, Their Language,
Customs, and Traditions: The Community as Seen from
an Ethnographic Perspective
Chapter Five - The Karaites and Their Neighbours:
Relations with the Christian Population and with the
Rabbanite Jews
Chapter Six - Karaites in Polish Galicia between the Two
World Wars
Chapter Seven - Khazar Theory vs. Racial Anthropology:
Interwar Turkicization of the Galician Karaites and Its
Outcome during World War II
Chapter Eight - The Galician Karaites after
Conclusion - The Historical Fate, the Past, and the Future
of the Karaite Community in Eastern Europe
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