Abraham Firkovitch: between tradition and modernity
Journal: Scientific Yearbook History of Religions in Ukraine
Year: 2019

The article is dedicated to a work and studies of the most controversial person in the history of Eastern-European (Crimean) Karaites, Abraham Firkovich. The main stages of the scholar’s way and main points of his theories are reviewed. It is discussed if his aims and goals should be analyzed in the context of new aged nationalism, or just as an attempt to occupy a privileged (in comparison with Talmudic Jewry) positions in the frame of the social structure of Imperial Russia. Author also examin