The relation between Hebrew and Turkic in Crimean Karaim literature on the basis of a translation of the Hebrew drama &lt;i&gt;Melukhat Sha’ul&lt;/i&gt;
Journal: Karaite Archives
Year: 2013

This paper discusses three topics related to a Crimean Karaim translation of the Hebrew drama entitled Melukhat Sha’ul. The translation was made in the first half of the nineteenth century, approximately in the 1840s, by a Karaim scholar named Abraham ben Yashar Lutski. The first part of this article is devoted to the characteristics of relations between the Karaims and the Rabbanites at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the context of their literary activity. It is followed