TY - BOOK AU - Kizilov, Mikhail AB - Drawing on the variety of archival sources in the host of European and Oriental languages, the book focuses on the history, ethnography, and convoluted ethnic identity of the Polish-Lithuanian Karaites. The vanishing community of 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 important is the analysis of the dejudaization (or Turkicization) of the community that saved the Karaites from horrors of the Holocaust. DO - 10.1515/9783110425260 ID - OAPEN ID: 17957 KW - Holocaust L1 - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110425260 LA - English LK - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/59712 PB - De Gruyter PY - 2015 SN - 9783110487305 SN - 9783110425260 TI - The Sons of Scripture. The Karaites in Poland and Lithuania in the Twentieth Centurynull ER -