Karaite Hebrew poetry and poetics in early modern Europe
ENHebrew was the main language of the early modern Karaim culture. Nearly all Polish–Lithuanian Karaim scholars wrote poetry in Hebrew for various occasions celebrating the Karaim cycle of life: for Sabbaths and festivals, for weddings and circumcisions, or as eulogies for a fellow scholar. Their poems cover exegetical, philosophical, and mystical topics from a Karaim point of view and contain historical details about Karaim life in Eastern Europe. Karaim Hebrew poets followed the footsteps of earlier Karaite generations: Byzantine Karaite poetry, emulating the Andalusian standards of poetics and familiarised through shared literary sources, served as their main literary model. Key words: Karaims, Karaites, Hebrew poetry, Karaite Hebrew poetry, Andalusian Hebrew prosody, Poland–Lithuania. [From the publication]
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- Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the eighteenth century : a genealogy of modernity / Gershon David Hundert. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2006. xix, 286 p.
- The Lithuanian plague of 1710 and the Karaites : a poem of lament in the Karaim language from Tadeusz Kowalski's archival collection / Mikhail Kizilov. Lituanus. 2011, vol. 57, no. 2, p. 31-48, 79.
