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- Title
KARAIMOVÉ JAKO SOUČÁST RUSKÉ EMIGRACE V MEZIVÁLEČNÉM ČESKOSLOVENSKU.
- Authors
KALETA, PETR
- Abstract
This text analyzes the issue of the Karaim emigrants in Czechoslovakia, which has thus far been unknown in Czech scholarly circles. The Karaims arrived here in the context of the extensive Russian emigration at the beginning of the 1920s. The study shows, above all based on the examples of four striking personalities from the Czechoslovak Karaims (Michail Ajvaz, Sinan Borju, Savelij Chadži and Andrej Karakoz), how the emigrants reached Czechoslovakia and how they managed to establish themselves as individuals in various (above all technical) fields. In the case of two of them (M. Ajvaz and S. Borju) the fates of their brothers who settled in Czechoslovakia are also described.The text points to specific characteristics of the Czechoslovak Karaims and to important milestones in their life: the Russian Civil War, which drove them out of their home, and the Second World War, during which they had to prove their Karaim (non-Jewish) origin, and after it, to come to terms with the communist regime, which did not favor them, as they were white emigrants. Because this is the first study on the Czechoslovak Karaims, it is based primarily on material from Czech and Slovak archives.
- Subjects
EASTERN Europe; KARAIMS; ETHNOLOGY; EMIGRATION &; immigration; IMMIGRANTS; CZECHOSLOVAKIAN history
- Publication
Czech Ethnological Journal / Český Lid: Etnologický Casopis, 2014, Vol 101, Issue 3, p257
- ISSN
0009-0794
- Publication type
Article