The Study of the History of the Crimean Karaites in the Home and Foreign Historiography
Journal: Materials in Archaeology History and Ethnography of Tauria
Year: 2021

Researchers’ attention to the past of the Crimean Karaites comes from the fact that this problem, despite considerable home and foreign historiography, has never been analysed comprehensively. The turn to the history of the Karaites is of pronounced scholarly significance, since so far it has not only been the subject of scholarly debate, but is often accompanied by non-scientific speculation and polemics. Moreover, the studies of a number of cases and episodes of the Karaites’ past are biased a