“Ruthenian Nationalism” and “Leonowicz’s Document”: a New Discussion Around the Arrival of Karaite Community to Halych
Journal: The World of the Orient
Year: 2021

The tendency to re-examine and be very suspicious of the sources related to the history of Eastern European Karaites is a mainstream of contemporary scholarship related to this topic. This trend could be explained through activity in the middle of the 19 th century of Abraham Firkovich, well-known Karaite scholar and collector, and accusation to him and following Karaite intellectuals of forgery of materials, related to the history of Karaites. A written source that has been discussed among the