Unknown Lutsk Karaim Letters in Hebrew Script (19th-20th Centuries)

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Published: 2011

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 9788323384991

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The work presents - as far as is now possible - the language spoken by Lutsk Karaims in the second half of the 19th and in the first two decades of the 20th centuries. This is attempted by means of editing eleven private letters and five open letters written in Lutsk Karaim - with Hebrew interpolations. The letters were written by different authors in Hebrew script. The present publication appears to be the first critical edition of this type of texts written in this particular dialect. Previous editions of south-western Karaim manuscripts either concerned very short texts from Halych or were prepared with no intention of being professional. The linguistic description of the texts aims to present a grammar of the manuscripts' language. It is complemented with a separate chapter dealing with the Slavonic structural influences exerted on the authors' idiolects, and with the lexicon of the texts. A separate part deals with the orthography and the features of the writing itself. The transcription and translation of each manuscript are preceded with a concise palaeographic description and a summary of the content. The work closes with a glossary, several indexes, maps, and the facsimile of the manuscripts.

Unknown Lutsk Karaim Letters in Hebrew Script (19th-20th Centuries)

Unknown Lutsk Karaim Letters in Hebrew Script (19th-20th Centuries) PDF

Author: Michał Németh

Publisher: Wydawnictwo UJ

Published: 2013-05

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 8323332169

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The work presents -- as far as is now possible -- the language spoken by Lutsk Karaims in the second half of the 19th and in the first two decades of the 20th centuries. This is attempted by means of editing eleven private letters and five open letters written in Lutsk Karaim -- with Hebrew interpolations. The letters were written by different authors in Hebrew script.The present publication appears to be the first critical edition of this type of text written in this particular dialect. Previous editions of south-western Karaim manuscripts either concerned very short texts from Halych or were prepared with no intention of being professional.The linguistic description of the texts aims to present a grammar of the manuscripts' language. It is complemented with a separate chapter dealing with the Slavonic structural influences exerted on the authors' idiolects, and with the lexicon of the texts. A separate part deals with the orthography and the features of the writing itself. The transcription and translation of each manuscript are preceded with a concise palaeographic description and a summary of the content. The work closes with a glossary, several indexes, maps, and the facsimile of the manuscripts.

The Sons of Scripture

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Author: Mikhail Kizilov

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2015-07-24

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 3110425262

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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.

Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis. Vol. 128 (2011)

Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis. Vol. 128 (2011) PDF

Author: Elżbieta Mańczak-Wohlfeld (ed.)

Publisher: Wydawnictwo UJ

Published: 2011-12-10

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 832333255X

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The journal Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis (= SLing) was established after the Institute of Polish Studies (subsequently transformed into the Faculty of Polish Studies) separated from the Faculty of Philology. It constitutes a continuation of the publication entitled Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego (Prace Językoznawcze).

Middle Western Karaim

Middle Western Karaim PDF

Author: Michał Németh

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-04-28

Total Pages: 813

ISBN-13: 9004419373

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This volume offers the first comprehensive study on the history of Middle Western Karaim dialects. The author provides a systematic description of sound changes dating from the 17th–19th-centuries and reconstructs their absolute- and relative chronologies. In addition, the main morphological peculiarities are presented in juxtaposition to Modern Western Karaim data. The textual basis for this historical-linguistic investigation is a critical edition of pre-1800 Western Karaim interpretations of Hebrew religious songs called piyyutim (149 texts altogether). The reason behind this choice is that some of these texts are among the oldest known Western Karaim texts in general, and that until now no study has brought the Karaim translation tradition in this genre closer to the reader.

Turcologica Upsaliensia

Turcologica Upsaliensia PDF

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-10-26

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 9004435859

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The richly illustrated essays in Turcologica Upsaliensia tell of scholars, travellers, diplomats and collectors who explored the Turkic-speaking world while affiliated with Sweden’s oldest university, at Uppsala, and who enriched the University Library with collections of Turkic cultural heritage objects.

Historical Morphology

Historical Morphology PDF

Author: Jacek Fisiak

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2011-08-02

Total Pages: 493

ISBN-13: 3110823128

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TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

Karaite Judaism

Karaite Judaism PDF

Author: Meira Polliack

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-07-18

Total Pages: 1013

ISBN-13: 9004294260

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Karaism is a Jewish religious movement of a scripturalist and messianic nature, which emerged in the Middle Ages in the areas of Persia-Iraq and Palestine and has maintained its unique and varied forms of identity and existence until the present day, undergoing resurgent cycles of creativity, within its major geographical centres of the Middle-East, Byzantium-Turkey, the Crimea and Eastern Europe. This Guide to Karaite Studies contains thirty-seven chapters which cover all the main areas of medieval and modern Karaite history and literature, including geographical and chronological subdivisions, and special sections devoted to the history of research, manuscripts and printing, as well as detailed bibliographies, index and illustrations. The substantial volume reflects the current state of scholarship in this rapidly growing sub-field of Jewish Studies, as analysed by an international team of experts and taught in various universities throughout Europe, Israel and the United States.