CONTENTS Introduction Foreword Language Groups Tribes and Dialects Order the book The Peoples of the Red Book Abazians (Abaza) Abkhaz Aguls Akhvakhs Aleuts Altaics Aliutors Andis Archis Asiatic Eskimos Bagulals Baraba Tatars Bartangs Bats Bezhtas Botlikhs Budukhs Central Asian Jews Chamalals Chukchis Chulym Tatars Crimean Jews Crimean Tatars Didos Dolgans Enets Evens Evenks Georgian Jews ...

Karaism is the original form of Judaism as prescribed by God in the Torah. Karaite Judaism rejects later additions to the Tanach (Jewish Bible) such as the Rabbinic Oral Law.

KARAYLARIN &#220YI / KARAIM HOME PAGE A View of Chufut-Kale, Crimea This Web site is dedicated to the history and culture of Crimean Karaims Here you will find a fascinating history of Karaims or Karailar (sing. Karai), their language, culture, and heroic struggle to survive. Crimean Karaims are people of Turk(ic) descent who have adopted Karaism. This movement could be described as a return to ...

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY The Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit Genizah Fragments The Newsletter of Cambridge University's Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit at Cambridge University Library No. 31 April 1996 Images of the Newsletter: Page 1 (452, 680 bytes) Page 2 (430, 632 bytes) Page 3 (436, 880 bytes) Page 4 (442, 534 bytes) In this Edition: Memories of a momentous find T-S unit ...

The third Nordic conference on Middle Eastern Studies: Ethnic encounter and culture change Joensuu, Finland, 19-22 June 1995 Signs of New Life in Karaim Communities Tapani Harviainen University of Helsinki NB *This is the unedited paper as given at the Joensuu conference. An updated and edited version has been published in Sabour and Vik r, Ethnic encounter and culture change, Bergen/London ...

The third Nordic conference on Middle Eastern Studies: Ethnic encounter and culture change Joensuu, Finland, 19-22 June 1995 Signs of New Life in Karaim Communities Tapani Harviainen University of Helsinki NB *This is the unedited paper as given at the Joensuu conference. An updated and edited version has been published in Sabour and Vik r, Ethnic encounter and culture change, Bergen/London ...

Spoken Karaim : project description The project's main purpose is to produce an interactive multimedia CD that will support the Karaim community in its efforts to maintain its language and pass the language to the younger generation provide a companion sound resource for the forthcoming book Spoken Karaim which describes the Karaim language provide information about the Karaim language and ...

Recent Publications of Lithuanian Karaims In spite of numerous obstacles of a linguistic, economic and political nature, the Karaims in Lithuania have been able to produce the following publications during the six years of their national renaissance: Karaimu etnografine paroda Karaimskaja etnografixeskaja vystavka, text by Juozas Vercinkevicius and Romualdas Firkovicius. An illustrated ...

Al-Qirqisani center The al-Qirqisani Center for the Promotion of Karaite Studies Who we are The al-Qirqisani Center for the Promotion of Karaite Studies is a cooperative of people involved in promoting the study of Karaism. Our focus is on the publication of Karaite texts (old and new), the promotion of the awareness of Karaite Judaism, and the presentation of accurate information on Karaism for ...