Historical Consciousness, Haskalah, and Nationalism Among the Karaites of Eastern Europe - Karaite Texts and Studies, Volume 10

In Historical Consciousness, Haskalah, and Nationalism among the Karaites of Eastern Europe Golda Akhiezer presents the spiritual life and historical thought of Eastern European Karaites, shedding new light on several conventional notions prevalent in Karaite studies from the nineteenth century.

About the author

Golda Akhiezer, PhD (2008) in Jewish history, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is a senior lecturer in the Israel Heritage Department at Ariel University. She has published extensively on the history and culture of Eastern European Jewry with main emphases on Karaism; Jewish-Christian and Karaite-Rabbanite polemics; modernization, Haskalah, and Jewish studies in the Russian Empire. She has recently published the book The Conquest of the Crimea by the Russian Empire through the Eyes of Karaite Chroniclers (Jerusalem - Moscow: Gesharim 2015).

Product details

• Authors: Golda Akhiezer
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.12.2017
• EAN: 9789004360570
• ISBN: 978-90-04-36057-0
• No. of pages: 388
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 236 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 635 g
• Series: Études Sur Le Judaïsme Médiéva
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism