Middle Western Karaim
Middle Western Karaim

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.

The Western Karaim Torah
The Western Karaim Torah

Author: Michał Németh

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-03-01

Total Pages: 1507

ISBN-13: 9004447377

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This volume offers the critical edition and an English translation of the oldest translation of the Pentateuch into Western Karaim copied in 1720 by Simcha ben Chananel (died 1723). The manuscript was compared against several other Karaim translations of the Torah as well as with the standard text of the Hebrew Bible. The author provides a description of the manuscript’s language and an outline of the history of Western Karaim translations of the Torah to better understand the its philological and historical background.

The Western Karaim Torah
The Western Karaim Torah

Author: Michał Németh

Publisher: Languages of Asia

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 1508

ISBN-13: 9789004426580

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"This volume offers the critical edition and an English translation of the oldest translation of the Pentateuch into Western Karaim copied in 1720 by Simcha ben Chananel (died 1723). The manuscript was compared against several other Karaim translations of the Torah as well as with the standard text of the Hebrew Bible. The author provides a description of the manuscript's language and an outline of the history of Western Karaim translations of the Torah to better understand the its philological and historical background"--

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

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).

The Karaites of Galicia
The Karaites of Galicia

Author: Mikhail Kizilov

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 9004166025

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The book focuses on the history, ethnography, and convoluted ethnic identity of the Karaites, an ethnoreligious group in Eastern Galicia (modern Ukraine). The small community of the Karaite Jews, a non-Talmudic Turkic-speaking minority, who 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 Galician Karaite community from its earliest days until today with the main emphasis placed on the period from 1772 until 1945. Especially important is the analysis of the twentieth-century dejudaization (or Turkicization) of the community, which saved the Karaites from the horrors of the Holocaust.

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

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.

Tense and Aspect in the Languages of Europe
Tense and Aspect in the Languages of Europe

Author: Östen Dahl

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2008-08-22

Total Pages: 865

ISBN-13: 311019709X

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The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.

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