Book Announcement: "The Sons of Scripture"
by Mikhail Kizilov
14.07.2015
Today's Karaites who make up less than 1% of Israel's Jews were once as
numerous as Rabbanites. Moreover, the slow but inevitable decrease in the
number of the Karaites in Poland and Lithuania leads to the conclusion that the
Polish-Lithuanian Karaites are one of the most endangered ethnoreligious groups
in Eastern Europe. This vanishing community of non-Talmudic Turkic-speaking
Jews, who had lived in Eastern Europe since the late Middle Ages, had developed
though a unique ethnographic culture and religious tradition.
The new open access book by Mikhail Kizilov, "The Sons of Scripture", published
by De Gruyter Open is a full and fascinating history of this remarkable
community, from its beginnings in the early part of the 14th century, until its
near destruction during the Second World War, Holocaust, and years of Communist
regime. The book offers the first comprehensive study of the dramatic history
of the Polish-Lithuanian Karaite community in the twentieth and twenty first
centuries.
Drawing on a variety of archival sources in the host of European and Oriental
languages, Kizilov deals with the history, ethnography and the complex ethnic
identity of the Polish-Lithuanian Karaites. It includes an analysis of the
dejudaization (or Turkicization) of the community, which saved some of the
Karaites from the horrors of the Holocaust. The author relies upon previously
untapped sources on the Eastern European Karaites in Vilnius, Berlin, New York,
Warsaw, Krakow, Halicz, Moscow and Simferopol.
"Mikhail Kizilov, one of the foremost scholars of East European Karaite
history, has produced in Sons of Scripture an exhaustive and authoritative
study of this endangered ethno-religious community, whose origins, identity and
history have often been misunderstood, misinterpreted and politicized
externally and internally. That history, in particular that of the tortured
20th century, navigated by Kizilov with admirable clarity and meticulous
scholarship, has now been recovered" says Peter B. Golden, Professor Emeritus
of History from the Rutgers University.
This book aims, in addition to its academic objectives, at reminding the public
of the necessity to help numerous ethnic and religious minorities inhabiting
the continent to survive in the twenty-first century.
The book is available fully in open access to read, download and share on De
Gruyter Online.
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