KARAITES

or Caraitesboth: kârˈəīts, Jewish schismatic sect, reputedly founded (8th cent.) in Persia by Anan ben David and originally known as Ananites. Its adherents were called Karaites after the 9th cent. The Karaites attacked the Talmudic interpretation of the Bible, rejecting the oral law and interpreting the Bible literally, and they developed their own commentaries, which were in many respects more rigorous and ascetic than the Talmudic interpretations. In the 10th cent. they produced a splendid literature in both Arabic and Hebrew. The sect declined after the 12th cent., but remnants are still extant, notably in the Crimea and Israel.

See Karaite Anthology (ed. and tr. by L. Nemoy, 1952), Z. Ankori, Karaites in Byzantium: The Formative Years, 970–1100 (1957, repr. 1968); P. Birnbaum, ed., Karaite Studies (1971).

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books on: Karaites  - 324 results

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An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of the Russian and Soviet Empires
Book by James S. Olson, Lee Brigance Pappas, Nicholas C. J. Pappas; Greenwood Press, 1994
Subjects: Ethnology--Russia--Dictionaries, Ethnology--Soviet Union--Dictionaries, Russia--Ethnic Relations--Dictionaries, Soviet Union--Ethnic Relations--Dictionaries
...efforts were such Karaites as Simhah Bobovich, the first Karaite religious leader...certainly the last Karaite author of distinction...work of these Karaites was designed...in 1863. The Karaite clergy now had...empire. The Karaites sought further...
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The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge - Vol. 6
Book by Samuel Macauley Jackson; Funk and Wagnalls, 1910
Subjects: Theology--Encyclopedias
...last to produce Karaite literature...The first Karaites entered Poland...allowed the Karaites to settle also...The first Karaite to make an open...most celebrated Karaites and their works. 6. Poland. Karaite literature ends...
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Roads to Extinction: Essays on the Holocaust
Book by Philip Friedman, Ada June Friedman; Jewish Publication Society of America, 1980
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
...confirmed the recognition of the Karaites as a separate religious community...the racial background of the Karaites. Its indecision was reflected...practice, however, the tiny Karaite group was exempted from anti...legislation concerning the Karaites, it became a kind of Magna...
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The Exiled and the Redeemed
Book by Itzhak Ben-Zvi; Jewish Publication Society, 1957
Subjects: Jews--Middle East
...and Sheraya Shebshal affirming, that Karaites were of Mongol descent. Under the Nazi...memorandum on the racial origin of the Karaites. He consulted Mr. Friedman and both...objective report on the Jewish origin of the Karaites would mean death to the whole community...
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Jews in Islamic Countries in the Middle Ages
Book by Moshe Gil, David Strassler; Brill, 2004
Subjects: Islamic Countries--Ethnic Relations, Jews--Islamic Countries--History--To 1500
...from being given to the Karaites, and while even this...published any of his anti-Karaite polemics . Sahl did...he wrote against the Karaites , but he did not release...Talmud . Many anti-Karaite polemical arguments...Saadia wrote against the Karaites method of qiyas (analogy...
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journal articles on: Karaites  - 35 results

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The Stains of Culture: An Ethno-Reading of Karaite Jewish Women
Journal article by Rivka Ulmer; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 127, 2007
...to Rabbanites the Karaites do not separate meat and milk. The Karaite position is based...this particular Karaite group. Based upon...engagement with Karaites in Northern California...of a contemporary Karaite Sabbath worship...
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Karaism and Christian Hebraism: A New Document
Journal article by Daniel J. Lasker; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 59, 2006
Subjects: Karaites--History, Karaites--Religious aspects
...sustained discussion of Karaites. The Karaite calendar is one of the features...Moshe. "The Origins of the Karaites." In Karaite Judaism (2003), 73...promise from Selden to publish Karaite books, the Karaites with whom he was in contact...
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Heir Snares Eyre's Mähr1: Murderous Idea Vs. Thieving Interpretation: Cynthia Ozick's Literary Theory in Heir to the Glimmering World
Journal article by Susanne Klingenstein; Shofar, Vol. 26, 2008
Subjects: Books, Literary criticism, Ozick, Cynthia
...the Bear Boy who (like the Karaites) rejects the interpretive...authentic (to wit: what the Karaites knew). Some descriptions...a contemporary version of a Karaite. She strips him of his belongings...devotees to an IDEA, to wit Karaites, Communists, and Nazis...
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A Shii-Jewish "Debate" (Munazara) in the Eighteenth Century
Journal article by Vera B. Moreen; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 119, 1999
Subjects: Jews--History, Muslims--History
...already by the Karaites and it is likely that Karaite objections are...Jews (Nemoy, Karaite Anthology, 49...Rabbanites, Karaites (Ananiyya...indebtedness to Karaite sources, see...Elements karaites." (104) Like...
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Marriages Are Made in Heaven: Marriage and the Individual in the Roman Jewish Ghetto
Journal article by Kenneth R. Stow; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 48, 1995
Subjects: Jews--History, Judaism--Customs and practices, Marriage--History
...and opposition, the Karaites challenged the common...58. Ankori, Zvi. Karaites in Byzantium. New York...Hebraici. Nemoy, Leon. Karaite Anthology. New Haven...introduction to the Karaites remains the opening...Nemoy, 284, for a Karaite ketubah which indicates...
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Truthful, Sweet Story of Refugee Life, by a Writer in Her Prime
Magazine article by Martin Rubin; World and I, Vol. 20, January 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Heir to the Glimmering World (Book)--Book reviews
...triumph. One is left only wanting more, particularly about the Karaites, the fundamentalist medieval Jewish sect who are the focus...James, desperately and destructively seeking an identity. The Karaites are a specter haunting this novel and many of its characters...
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Edna's Essays: an Israeli-american Traveler along the American Way
Magazine article by Edna Homa; The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Vol. XVII, March 31, 1998
Subjects: Armed forces, Israel, Politics, Religion
...Muslims, Christians, Druze, Karaites, Samarians and others, is...get married because of the Karaite origins of the groom! He based...Halachic texts that "determined" Karaites were probable bastards and...alleged -- the ancestors of the Karaite sect accepted only the written...
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Judaism as a Free Church: Footnotes to John Howard Yoder's the Jewish-Christian Schism Revisited
Magazine article by Daniel Boyarin; Cross Currents, Vol. 56, Winter 2007
Subjects: Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity (Book)--Evaluation, Judaism--Analysis, The Jewish-Christian Schism Revisited (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Theologians--Works, Yoder, John Howard--Criticism and interpretation
...belief that might be said, phenomenologically speaking, to define themselves out. This is analogous to the situation with the Karaites later, some of whom who remain Jews till this day and others that have clearly left Jewishness entirely. Yoder himself understood...
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Worse Yet, Real Life
Magazine article by Max Watman; New Criterion, Vol. 23, November 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Heir to the Glimmering World (Book)--Book reviews, Oblivion: Stories (Book)--Book reviews, The Plot Against America (Book)--Book reviews, Villages (Book)--Book reviews
...assistant, relocate NYC. Respond Mitwisser, 22 Westerly." It is 1935, and Rose is eighteen. Professor Mitwisser studies the Karaites, an old sect of essentialist Jews who refute the Talmud, and stick to literal interpretations of the Torah. They are long...
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Gay Orthodoxy Revisited: the Constrained Halakhic Solutions
Magazine article by Steve Greenberg; Tikkun, Vol. 19, September 2004
Subjects: Gays & lesbians, Homosexuality, Human relations, Interpersonal communication, Judaism, Personal relationships, Religion, Religious orthodoxy, Values
...expanded by Maimonides as a broadly applied leniency when dealing with the children and grandchildren of heretics. The original Karaites, a sectarian group rejecting the rabbinic oral tradition, were to be harshly rebuked for having actively broken away from...
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Truthful, Sweet Tale of Refugee Life, by Writer in Her Prime
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 19, 2004
Subjects: Ozick, Cynthia
...triumph. One is left only wanting more, particularly about the Karaites, the fundamentalist medieval Jewish sect who are the focus...James, desperately and destructively seeking an identity. The Karaites are a specter haunting this novel and many of its characters...
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Holidays: Lithuania's Best Kept Secret; It Has a Troubled History but a Bright New Future as One of Europe's Holiday Hotspots. GARETH ROGERS Takes a Break in Lithuania, Where Your Pound Goes Further and There's Everything from Safaris to Shopping
Newspaper article; Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England), July 15, 2007
...Trakai. A 40-minute trip outside the city brings you to this traditional restaurant with food and coffee from the ancient Karaites religion. Worth visiting for views of Trakai Castle and lake, which used to house the Lithuanian royalty. Visit www.kybynlar...
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It's a Wild Life in Lithuania; HOLIDAYS Strike out to See Boars, Wolves .. and Crazy Locals
Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), August 17, 2008
...idyll we find a delicious slice of Turkey, courtesy of the Karaites, descendants of those who came from the Crimea in the 15th Century to serve as fortress guardians. Now 60 Karaite families live among Trakai towns 7,000 people. At the restaurant...
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It's a Wild Life in Lithuania; Strike out to See Boars, Wolves .. and Crazy Locals
Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), June 1, 2008
...idyll we find a delicious slice of Turkey, courtesy of the Karaites, descendants of those who came from the Crimea in the 15th Century to serve as fortress guardians. Now 60 Karaite families live among Trakai towns 7,000 people. At the restaurant...


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encyclopedia articles on: Karaites  - 6 results

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Karaites
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Karaites after the 9th cent. The Karaites attacked the Talmudic interpretation...the Crimea and Israel. See Karaite Anthology (ed. and tr. by L. Nemoy, 1952), Z. Ankori, Karaites in Byzantium: The Formative...1968); P. Birnbaum, ed., Karaite Studies (1971...
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Anan Ben David
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Babylonian Jewish theologian, founder of the Ananites from whom the Karaites claim spiritual descent. He is said to have been a descendant...often represent a quite ascetic attitude. See L. Nemoy, Karaite Anthology (1952...
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Caraites
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CARAITES see Karaites . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Saadia Ben Joseph Al-Fayumi
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...at Sura, Babylonia, which under his leadership became the highest seat of Jewish learning, and a vigorous opponent of the Karaites . Saadias Book of Language laid the foundation of Hebrew grammar; he also wrote a Hebrew dictionary, the Agron, and made...
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Ananites
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ANANITES see Anan ben David ; Karaites . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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