The Karaites of Galicia: An Ethnoreligious Minority Among the Ashkenazim, the Turks, and the Slavs, 1772-1945

by Mikhail Kizilov

Drawing on sources in original languages, the book offers the first comprehensive study of the history, ethnography and convoluted ethnic identity of the Galician Karaites, a non-Talmudic Turkic-speaking minority of Jewish scripturalists.

480 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Dr. Mikhail Kizilov is an Alexander Von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Institutum Judaicum, Tübingen (Germany). He earned his PhD in history from Oxford University (United Kingdom) in 2007. He possesses skills in English, Russian, Polish, German, Hebrew, Yiddish, French, Italian, Karaim, Turkish, Arabic, Ukrianian, and Latin.

Dr. Kizilov has many publications translated into multiple languages, including: Crimean Judea: Notes on the History of the Jews, Khazars, Karaites, and Krymchaks in the Crimea since Ancient Times (2011) and Bibiographia Karaitica: An Annotated Bibliography of Karaites and Karaism (2011). He has received several academic awards, including the 2012 Judaica Bibliography Award from the Association of Jewish Libraries for his book Bibliographia Karaitica (2011).