Contents

pp.：  5 – 8

List of Abbreviations

pp.：  9 – 10

List of Illustrations

pp.：  11 – 14

Acknowledgements

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Chapter One Introduction to the Study and the History of Karaism

pp.：  19 – 72

1.1. The Topicality of Studying the Galician Karaites as a Vanishing Ethnic Minority

pp.：  19 – 30

1.2. Literature Survey

pp.：  31 – 36

1.3. Methodological Difficulties, Sources, and Objectives of the Study

pp.：  37 – 45

1.4. The System of Transliteration

pp.：  46 – 47

1.5. Outline of the History of the Galician Karaite Community Prior to 1772

pp.：  48 – 72

Chapter Two The Karaites in Austrian Galicia: The Community as Seen from Outside

pp.：  73 – 106

2.1. The Karaites and Toleranzpolitik

pp.：  73 – 88

2.2. The Karaites as the "Exemplary Jews" of Austria

pp.：  89 – 98

2.3. The Karaites and the Royal Family of Austria

pp.：  99 – 106

Chapter Three The Karaites in Austrian Galicia, Their History and Culture: The Community as Seen from Within

pp.：  107 – 150

3.1. Halicz

pp.：  107 – 140

3.2. Kukizów

pp.：  141 – 148

3.3. Lwów-Lemberg and Its Role in the Life of the Galician Karaites from 1772 to 1918

pp.：  149 – 150

Chapter Four The Galician Karaites, Their Language, Customs, and Traditions: The Community as Seen from an Ethnographic Perspective

pp.：  151 – 208

4.1. Religio-Ethnographic Customs and Traditions

pp.：  151 – 171

4.2. Karaim, a Turko-Judeo-Slavic Language: History, Literature, and Folklore

pp.：  172 – 197

4.3. The Crimean Karaites and Their Impact on the Religious and Everyday Life of the Galician Community

pp.：  198 – 208

Chapter Five The Karaites and Their Neighbours: Relations with the Christian Population and with the Rabbanite Jews

pp.：  209 – 252

5.1. The Karaites and the Slavic Population (Poles and Ruthenians)

pp.：  209 – 219

5.2. The Karaites and the Talmudic Jews

pp.：  220 – 252

Chapter Six Karaites in Polish Galicia between the Two World Wars

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6.1. General State of the Community after World War I

pp.：  253 – 267

6.2. Interwar Hazzanim, Isaac Abrahamowicz, and the Conflicts of the 1920s and Early 1930s

pp.：  268 – 274

6.3. The Karaites and Their Ethnic Neighbours

pp.：  275 – 282

Chapter Seven Khazar Theory vs. Racial Anthropology: Interwar Turkicization of the Galician Karaites and Its Outcome during World War II

pp.：  283 – 320

7.1. Seraja Szapszał’s Visit to Halicz in 1929

pp.：  283 – 285

7.2. Seraja Szapszał’s Reformist Activity of the 1930s

pp.：  286 – 294

7.3. The Visit of Corrado Gini's Anthropological Expedition and Its Impact on the Development of Szapszał’s Turkic Theory

pp.：  295 – 304

7.4. Implementation of Szapszał’s Turkic Doctrine in Halicz and Its Outcome

pp.：  305 – 311

7.5. The Karaites of Halicz during the Second World War and the Holocaust

pp.：  312 – 320

Chapter Eight The Galician Karaites after 1945

pp.：  321 – 340

8.1. Decline of the Galician Community after the Second World War

pp.：  321 – 331

8.2. The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Last of the Galician Mohicans

pp.：  332 – 335

8.3. The Galician Karaite Community and Its Cultural Heritage Today

pp.：  336 – 340

Conclusion The Historical Fate, the Past, and the Future of the Karaite Community in Eastern Europe

pp.：  341 – 360

Glossary

pp.：  361 – 362

Bibliography

pp.：  363 – 394

Appendices

pp.：  395 – 426

Index

pp.：  427 – 434

Plates

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