Turkism, Polish Sarmatism and Jewish szlachta: Some Reflections on a Cultural Context of the Polis

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Turkism, Polish Sarmatism and Jewish szlachta: Some Reflections on a Cultural Context of the Polis

Turkism, Polish Sarmatism and Jewish szlachta: Some Reflections on a Cultural Context of the Polis

Authors : Dan D Y SHAPİRA

Pages : 29-43

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Publication Date : 2008-12-01

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :The purpose of this paper is to clarify one factual context in which the widespread - but erroneous - notion of the Turkic origins of the Eastern European Karaites might have arisen. I am not targeting here the senseless theories of such a politically-motivated falsifier as Seraja Szapszal, for I have done this elsewhere,1 but I will rather try to demonstrate that the initial stages of toying of the Eastern European Karaites with Turkicness should not be seen as some kind of conscious de-Judaization dirty tricks, but rather as a legitimate part of a specific Jewish-Polish discourse of the 18th century.
Keywords : Karaites, origin disputes, Turkic, Eastern European Jewry

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