Historical consciousness, Haskalah, and nationalism among the Karaites of Eastern Europe

Titel: Historical consciousness, Haskalah, and nationalism among the Karaites of Eastern Europe / by Golda Akhiezer
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Veröffentlicht: Leiden; Boston : Brill, [2018]
Umfang: XVIII, 369 Seiten : Illustrationen
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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mehrbändiges Werk:
Études sur le judaïsme médiéval ; tome 73
Karaite texts and studies ; volume 10
Einheitssachtitel: Todaʻah hisṭorit, haśkalah u-leʼumiyut be-ḳerev Ḳaraʼe Mizraḥ Eropah
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Andere Ausgaben: Online version: Akhiezer, Golda, 1962- author. Historical consciousness, Haskalah, and nationalism among the Karaites of Eastern Europe. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
ISBN: 9004360573 ; 9789004360570 ; 9789004360587
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  • Acknowledgements
  • p. xiii
  • List of Abbreviations
  • p. xv
  • Abstract
  • p. xvi
  • General Introduction
  • p. 1
  • 1
  • Research Methods and Their Ramifications
  • p. 2
  • 2
  • Reconstructing Historical Thought
  • p. 4
  • 3
  • Types of Sources
  • p. 5
  • 4
  • Pseudo-Scholarship, Forged Documents, and Their Significance for the Research
  • p. 7
  • Introduction to Terminology
  • p. 11
  • 1
  • Historical Consciousness and Traditional Writing
  • p. 11
  • 2
  • History versus Historical Narrative
  • p. 12
  • 3
  • Identity
  • p. 13
  • 4
  • Sect
  • p. 14
  • 5
  • Authors' Identity: Elites versus Everyman
  • p. 15
  • 1
  • The Study of Karaism and Its Paradoxes
  • p. 17
  • 1.1
  • The Research of Hokhmat Yisrael and Protestant Scholarship
  • p. 17
  • 1.2
  • The Ideology of Hokhmat Yisrael Scholars and the Study of Karaism
  • p. 20
  • 1.3
  • The Karaite Paradigm: Authentic or Imagined Karaism?
  • p. 23
  • 2
  • History or Historical Narratives? Formative Traditions in Karaite Literature and Their Social Functions
  • p. 25
  • 2.1
  • Karaite Historical Narratives as Reflections on the Schism
  • p. 26
  • 2.2
  • The Karaite "Chain of Tradition" and the Schism in Rabbanite Sources
  • p. 34
  • 2.3
  • Historicization of Rabbanite Sources-Karaite Historical Writing in the Early Modern Period
  • p. 40
  • 2.3.1
  • Caleb Afendopolo's Historical Writing: Compilation from Rabbanite Sources
  • p. 43
  • 2.3.2
  • Moses Bashyatchi's Interpretation: Finding Karaite Voices in the Talmud
  • p. 45
  • 3
  • Karaite Intellectual Life in the Fifteenth- to Seventeenth-Century Poland-Lithuania
  • p. 50
  • 3.1
  • Early Karaite Settlement in Eastern Europe: Historical Background
  • p. 51
  • 3.2
  • Halakhah, Polemics, and Libraries as influences on Karaite Identity in Fifteenth-Century Poland-Lithuania
  • p. 57
  • 3.2.1
  • Karaite-Rabbanite Polemics
  • p. 60
  • 3.2.2
  • The Karaite Libraries of Lithuania and Volhynia
  • p. 63
  • 3.3
  • The Polemics of Isaac ben Abraham of Troki, His Cultural Milieu, and the Question of Karaite Identity
  • p. 64
  • 3.4
  • The Intellectual Profile and Identity of the Seventeenth-Century Karaite Scholar
  • p. 77
  • 3.4.1
  • The Environment and Oeuvre of Joseph ben Mordecai Malinowski
  • p. 78
  • 3.4.2
  • Judah ben Aaron: Founder of the Dynasty of Sages
  • p. 81
  • 3.4.3
  • The Disciples of Joseph Delmedigo: Heralds of the Haskalah?
  • p. 84
  • 3.4.4
  • Abraham ben Josiah: An Attempted Declaration of Individuality
  • p. 90
  • 3.4.5
  • Joseph ha-Mashbir: Between Secular Wisdom and Rabbanite Wisdom
  • p. 99
  • 3.4.6
  • Changes in Patterns of Knowledge among Seventeenth-Century Karaite Intellectuals
  • p. 101
  • 4
  • The Interaction between the Karaites and the Protestant Hebraists in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
  • p. 107
  • 5
  • The Karaite "Chain of Tradition" in Eastern Europe and the Resurgence of Schism Literature
  • p. 118
  • 5.1
  • The Historiographical Writing of Mordecai ben Nisan
  • p. 118
  • 5.1.1
  • The Book Dod Mordekhay: A Gesture to a Distant Intimate
  • p. 120
  • 5.1.2
  • The Book Lebush Malkhut: Who Received the Torah at Mount Sinai?
  • p. 126
  • 5.2
  • Solomon ben Aaron and His View of History
  • p. 129
  • 5.3
  • Simhah Isaac Lutski: The Schism and the History of Kabbalistic Tradition
  • p. 137
  • 6
  • Karaite Chronography in the Crimea and Eastern Europe
  • p. 154
  • 6.1
  • Cultural and Historical Features of the Crimean Karaite Communities
  • p. 155
  • 6.1.1
  • Karaite Education in the Crimea
  • p. 159
  • 6.1.2
  • The Crimean Scholars
  • p. 161
  • 6.3
  • The Chronographic Texts and the Method of Their Analysis
  • p. 165
  • 6.2.1
  • Chronological Accounts of Events
  • p. 167
  • 6.2.2
  • Lists of Rulers
  • p. 179
  • 6.2.3
  • Personal Memoirs
  • p. 180
  • 6.2.4
  • Travel Diaries
  • p. 184
  • 6.2.5
  • Exemplary Stories
  • p. 185
  • 6.3
  • Features of Chronographic Writing in Poland-Lithuania
  • p. 189
  • 7
  • Karaites and Their Neighbors in the Nineteenth Century: The Attempt to Construct a Karaite History
  • p. 208
  • 7.1
  • The Polish-Lithuanian National Narratives and Karaite Historical Writing
  • p. 209
  • 7.2
  • "Modern-Traditional" Historical Writing
  • p. 216
  • 7.2.1
  • The Creative Historicization of Mordecai Sultanski
  • p. 219
  • 7.2.2
  • The Chronicle of Abraham Leonowicz and Galician Ruthenian Nationalism
  • p. 232
  • 8
  • The Haskalah, Hokhmat Israel, and the Evolution of Karaite Identity in the Russian Empire
  • p. 242
  • 8.1
  • The Advent of Modernity
  • p. 242
  • 8.1.1
  • The Karaites and the Haskalah Movement
  • p. 246
  • 8.1.2
  • Hokhmat Israel and the Karaite Struggle for Emancipation
  • p. 253
  • 8.2
  • The Historical Theories of Abraham Firkovich
  • p. 256
  • 8.2.1
  • A Sketch of Firkovich: The Man and His Work
  • p. 256
  • 8.2.2
  • The Scientific Journal Project: Firkovich's Objectives
  • p. 268
  • 8.2.3
  • The Social Backdrop to Firkovich's Work and Historical Ideas
  • p. 270
  • 8.3
  • Historical Writing in Russian Society and Firkovich's Ideas
  • p. 282
  • 8.3.1
  • Russian Scholarship of the Khazars and Karaite Historiography
  • p. 284
  • 8.3.2
  • Different Worlds: The Rupture between Firkovich and the Maskilim
  • p. 293
  • 8.3.3
  • From Text to Reality: The New Karaite Historical Identity and Its Manifestations
  • p. 301
  • 8.3.4
  • Karaite Nationalism: Unique Features
  • p. 307
  • Conclusion
  • p. 313
  • Appendix A
  • Sources in the Polemical Writings of Isaac ben Abraham of Troki
  • p. 319
  • Appendix B
  • List of Books from the Register (Pinqas) of the Karasubazar Rabbanite Community (1717-33)
  • p. 322
  • Appendix C
  • List of Disciples and Books Studied at the Chufut-Kale Study Hall, 1751-53
  • p. 326
  • Appendix D
  • Fragment of a Chronicle by Abraham Leonowicz
  • p. 331
  • Appendix E
  • Abraham Firkovich, Remarks on the Sadducees and on the Origins of the Karaites of Eastern Europe
  • p. 333
  • Bibliography
  • p. 336
  • Index of Names
  • p. 364