Language:
Polish
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
Kwartalnik Historii Żydów
Angaben zur Quelle:
279 (2021) 691-705
Keywords:
Karaites History 18th century
;
Names, Personal
;
Names, Personal Jewish
;
Nicknames
;
Crimea (Ukraine)
Abstract:
The surnames of Karaites from Crimea have long been of interest to both scholars and the Karaites themselves. Several collections of such names have been produced, including a list found in a Karaite Russian-Polish dictionary ("Karaimsko-russko-pol’skij slovar’", Moscow 1974) and the electronic list of over 1,600 items made available recently. Three manuscripts in the Russian National Library in St. Petersburg - two records on the election of gabbais in 1788 and 1794 contain the names of the persons authorized to vote, and a list of wedding gifts from 1786 which contains the donors’ names – represent a valuable record of Karaite anthroponymy in the transitional period during which unofficial anthroponyms became protonames before they began to assume the final form as officially required surnames by the beginning of the 19th century. The article contains an analysis of origin and meaning of 34 anthroponyms appearing in these manuscripts that have not yet appeared in other sources.
Note:
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