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Avraham Firkowicz in Istanbul (1830-1832): Paving the Way for Turkic Nationalism
by Dan Shapira
Avraham Firkowicz was the outstanding leader of the Karaims, a Turkic speaking Jewish group in Eastern Europe, in the 19th century, whose scientific activities proceeded his political missions. He was the man, who virtually made the Karaites an ethnically self-conscious group, now accounted among Turks of the Kipchak sub-group, and who started the debates on the very (Turkic) origin of the whole East European Jewry.
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