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- Title
KARAITE HEBREW POETRY AND POETICS IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE.
- Authors
TUORI, RIIKKA
- Abstract
Hebrew was the main language of the early modem Karaim culture. Nearly all Polish-Lithuanian Karaim scholars wrote poetry in Hebrew for various occasions celebrating the Karaim cycle of life: for Sabbaths and festivals, for weddings and circumcisions, or as eulogies for a fellow scholar. Their poems cover exegetical, philosophical, and mystical topics from a Karaim point of view and contain historical details about Karaim life in Eastern Europe. Karaim Hebrew poets followed the footsteps of earlier Karaite generations: Byzantine Karaite poetry, emulating the Andalusian standards of poetics and familiarised through shared literary sources, served as their main literary model.
- Subjects
KARAIM language; HEBREW poetry; SABBATH; JEWISH languages; KARAIMS; HEBREW language
- Publication
Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 2015, Vol 68, Issue 2, p229
- ISSN
0001-6446
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1556/062.2015.68.2.7