On the Reception of Haskalah Ideas in the Karaite community of the Crimea: on the example of literary works of Abraham Lutsky and Ilya Kazas
Journal: Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences eBooks
Year: 2025

This article examines how, and to what extent, Karaite intellectuals adopted the ideas of the Jewish Enlightenment (Haskalah) in the 19th century. Although scholarship on the correspondence and personal interactions between maskilim and Karaite scholars has developed since the early 20th centu-ry, the degree to which Haskalah ideas transformed traditional Karaite culture in the latter half of the 19th century remains underexplored. Modern historiography has primarily sought to answer this questi