Language:
English
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Jewish Languages
Angaben zur Quelle:
9,1 (2021) 100-149
Keywords:
Firkowitsch, Abraham,
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Manuscripts, Hebrew
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Manuscripts, Judeo-Turkish
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Judaism Prayers and devotions
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Manuscripts
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Languages in contact
;
Karaim language
Abstract:
This article presents a unique trilingual (Hebrew, Turkic, and Slavic) religious literary work from the personal archive of Avraham Firkowicz (National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg). The text, containing 129 lines (verses) in Hebrew characters, is written in Firkowicz’s own hand. Its author has not been reliably identified, but it is assumed that he could be a Karaite Jew from Łuck / Lutsk (Wolhynia, present-day Ukraine) with a good speaking-level knowledge of Slavic and Turkish (e.g., Joseph-Solomon Lutski or Mordechai Sultanski). The language of the Turkic version is a variety of Crimean Judeo-Turkic with many Turkish (Oğuz) features; the language of the Slavic version is based on standard Russian of the early 19th century with Church Slavonic, Ukrainian, and Polish elements.
Note:
Includes an edition of the text with transliteration and transcription of the Slavic and Turkic columns (pp. 117-133) and an English translation (pp. 133-137).
DOI:
10.1163/22134638-BJA10012
URL:
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