Mordecai Ḳazaz’s Ṭuv Ṭaʿam ‘Good Judgement’: A Crimean Turkic Karaim catechism compiled prior to 1825
Year: 2025

Mordecai Ḳazaz’s Ṭuv Ṭaʿam ‘Good Judgement’ is the only known Karaim catechism in Crimean Turkic Karaim. Written in the form of responsa for teaching the young, it marks the shift from Hebrew into Turkic in the Karaim literature of Crimea. Preserved among the holdings of the Edinburgh Univeristy Library (Or.Ms. 629) and printed in Gözleve (Eupatoria) in 1835, it stands at the crossroads of pedagogy, language and identity. In this volume Henryk Jankowski presents the first critical edition, wi