Sprache:
Deutsch
Erscheinungsjahr:
2011
Titel der Quelle:
Judaica; Beiträge zum Verstehen des Judentums
Angaben zur Quelle:
67,1 (2011) 48-96
Schlagwort(e):
Firkowitsch, Abraham,
;
Szapszal, Seraya
;
Karaites
;
Karaites History
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Kurzfassung:
Pp. 73-96 deal with the fate of Eastern European Karaites between 1938-43. In September 1938, in response to increasing antisemitism in Europe, Karaite representatives in Paris requested that Berlin recognize them as non-Jews. In January 1938 the Reichsstelle fur Sippenforschung (RfS) had already concluded that the Karaites are non-Jewish religiously, but that their racial affiliation had to be decided case by case. In autumn 1938 the Nazi administration researched the matter further, but no decision was made. In summer 1941 the Karaites in Paris turned to French authorities with the same request. At the beginning of the occupation they were registered as Jews in France; only in 1943, when Nazi Germany recognized them as religiously and racially non-Jewish, were they accepted as such also in France. Traces the persecutions some Karaites were exposed to in the Baltic countries, Crimea, and Ukraine, where they were numerous, and the process whereby they were eventually counted as belonging to non-Jewish, Turkish-Tataric races by the Nazis. Notes that, in 1941, some 500 Karaites perished at the hands of the Nazis in Riga.
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