Author:
Riikka Tuori University of Helsinki, P.O.B. 59, 00014, Finland

Search for other papers by Riikka Tuori in
Current site
Google Scholar
PubMed
Close
Restricted access

Hebrew 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.

  • Akhiezer, G. - Shapira, D. (2001): Qara’im be-liṭa u-be-vohlin-galiṣya ʿad ham-me’a hay-yod-ḥet [Karaites in Lithuania and in Volhynia-Galicia until the 18th century]. Peʿamim 89, pp. 1960.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation
  • Bashyachi, E. (1532): Adderet eliyahu [The mantle of Eliyyahu]. Constantinople.

  • van Bekkum, W. (2007): Some Thoughts on the ‘Secularization’ of Hebrew Liturgical Poetry in Pre-Modern and Modern Times. In: Fontaine, R. - Schatz, A. - Zwiep, I. (eds): Sepharad inAshkenaz: Medieval Knowledge and Eighteenth-Century Enlightened Jewish Discourse. Amsterdam, pp. 235247.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation
  • Bizikovich Y. - Firkovich Y. B. (1909): Tehillot yisra’el [The praises of Israel]. Berditshev.

  • Davidson, I. (1970): Thesaurus of Mediaeval Hebrew Poetry. Volumes IIV. New York.

  • Dubinsky, S. (1895): Ṣaqun laḥash [Silent prayer]. Vilna.

  • Einbinder, S. L. (2002): Beautiful Death: Jewish Poetry and Martyrdom in Medieval France. Princeton.

  • Figit, S. S. (1894): Iggeret niddeḥe shemu’el [The letter of the dispersed of Samuel]. St. Petersburg.

  • Firkavičiūtė, K. (2003): The Musical Heritage of Lithuania’s Karaims. In: Polliack, M. (ed.): Karaite Judaism: A Guide to its History and Literary Studies. Leiden, pp. 855871.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation
  • Fleischer, E. (1975): Shirat haq-qodesh ha-ʿivrit bime hab-benayim [Sacred Hebrew poetry in the Middle Ages]. Jerusalem.

  • Frank, D. (2003): Karaite Prayer and Liturgy. In: Karaite Judaism: A Guide to its History and Literary Studies. Leiden, pp. 559589.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation
  • Geiger, A. (1840): Melo’ ḥofnayim [A full handful]. Berlin.

  • Gierowski, J. A. (1996): The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the XVIIIth Century. Krakow.

  • Goldberg, P. S. (1957): Karaite Liturgy and its Relation to Synagogue Worship. Manchester.

  • Harshav, B. (2007): Prosody, Hebrew. In: Berenbaum, M. - Skolnik, F. (eds): Encyclopedia Judaica. Detroit, Vol. 16, pp. 595623.

  • Harviainen, T. (1992): The Karaites of Lithuania at the Present Time and the Pronunciation Tradition of Hebrew among Them: A Preliminary Survey. In: Dotan, A. (ed.): Proceedings of theNinth Congress of the International Organization for Masoretic Studies 1989. Atlanta, pp. 5369.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation
  • Harviainen, T. (2003): The Karaites in Eastern Europe and the Crimea: An Overview. In: Polliack, M. (ed.): Karaite Judaism: A Guide to Its History and Literary Studies. Leiden, pp. 633655.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation
  • Hundert, G. (2004): Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century. A Genealogy of Modernity. Berkeley, Los Angeles.

  • Idelsohn, A.Z. (1932): Jewish Liturgy and its Development. New York.

  • Kashani, R. (1978): Haq-qara’im. Qorot, masorot u-minhagim [The Karaites: history, traditions and customs]. Jerusalem.

  • Kizilov, M. (2003): Ezra ben Nisan ha-Rofe of Troki (1595–1666) - A Karaite Physician in Legend and History. Leipziger Beiträge zur jüdischen Geschichte und Kultur, pp. 83103.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation
  • Kizilov, M. (2009): The Karaites of Galicia: an Ethnoreligious Minority among the Ashkenazim, the Turks, and the Slavs, 1772–1945. Leiden.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation
  • Kizilov, M. (2011): The Lithuanian Plague of 1710 and the Karaites. A Poem of Lament in the Karaim Language from Tadeusz Kowalski’s Archival Collection. Lituanus 57/2. Accessed online (30.10.2014): http://www.lituanus.org/2011/11_2_03Kizilov.html.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation
  • Kollender, R. (2003): Melodic Patterns in Karaite Music: Past and Present. In: Polliack, M. (ed.): Karaite Judaism: A Guide to its History and Literary Studies. Leiden, pp. 471481.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation
  • Kukizow, D. (1897): Ṣemaḥ david [The plant of David]. St. Petersburg.

  • Kowalski, T. (1929): Karaimische Texte im Dialekt von Troki. Krakow.

  • Lasker, D. (2004): Simḥa yiṣḥaq luṣki: mequbbal qara’i ben ham-ma’a hay-yod-ḥet [Simha Isaac Lucki: The Karaite Kabbalist from the 18th century]. In: Gries, Z. - Huss, B. (eds): Shefaʿṭal: ʿiyyunim be-maḥshevet yisra’el u-ve-tarbut yehudit (muggashim le-Bracha Zaq) [The abundance of dew: studies in the thought of Israel and Jewish culture (offered to Bracha Zaq)]. Beersheva, pp. 171190.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation
  • Mann, J. (1931): Texts and Studies in Jewish History and Literature, Volume II. Cincinnati.

  • Miller, P. (1993): Prayer Book Politics: An Attempt to Print the Karaite Siddur in 1866 that was Canceled. Studies in Bibliography and Booklore 18, pp. 1526.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation
  • Neubauer, A. (1866): Aus der Petersburger Bibliothek. Beiträge und Documente zur Geschichte des Karäerthums und der karäischen Literatur. Leipzig.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation
  • Nosonovsky, M. (2011): The Karaite Community in Deražne and its Leader Ḥazzān Joseph ben Yeshuʿah. In: Shapira, D. - Lasker, D. (eds): Eastern European Karaites in the Last Generations. Jerusalem, pp. 1735.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation
  • Olach, Z. (2014): A Comparative Study of Two Evening Prayers Written in Karaim. In: Demir, N. - Karakoc, B. - Menz, A. (eds): Turcology and Linguistics. Éva Ágnes Csató Festschrift. Ankara, pp. 313326.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation
  • Pagis, D. (1976): Ḥiddush u-masoret be-shirat ha-ḥol ha-ʿivrit [Innovation and tradition in secular Hebrew poetry]. Jerusalem.

  • Poznański, S. (1918a): Karäische Drucke und Druckereien. Zeitschrift für Hebräische Bibliographia Vol. 21, Nos 13, pp. 3248.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation
  • Poznański, S. (1918b): Karäische Drucke und Druckereien. Zeitschrift für Hebräische Bibliographia Vol. 21, Nos 46, pp. 6683.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation
  • von Rohden, F. (2004): Karäische Gedenken der Khmelnytsky-Verfolgungen: ein Piyut von 1650. Judaica Vol. 60, No. 2, pp. 159169.

  • Rosman, M. (1990): The Lords’ Jews. Magnate-Jewish Relations in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during the Eighteenth Century. Cambridge, Massachusetts.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation
  • Schirmann, H. (1995): Toledot hash-shira ha-ʿivrit bi-sfarad ham-muslemi [The history of Hebrew poetry in Muslim Spain]. Jerusalem.

  • Schreiner, S. (1999): Delmedigos Bild der Polnisch-Litauischen Juden - Erfahrungen aus Funf Jahren. Studia Judaica Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 165183.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation
  • Stern, S. M. (1974): Hispano-Arabic Strophic Poetry. Oxford.

  • Tanenbaum, A. (2002): The Contemplative Soul. Hebrew Poetry and Philosophical Theory in Medieval Spain. Leiden.

  • Tobi, Y. (1986): Hash-shira ha-ʿivrit ba-arṣot-ham-mizraḥ le-aḥar hag-gerush [Hebrew poetry in Oriental Lands after the Expulsion]. Peʿamim 26, pp. 2945.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation
  • Tuori, R. (2011): “More Didactic than Lyrical”: Modern Views on Karaite Hebrew Poetry. SO Vol. 111, pp. 371392.

  • Tuori, R. (2013): Karaite Zemirot in Poland-Lithuania. A Study of Paraliturgical Poems from the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Helsinki.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation
  • Tuori, R. (2014): Karaites and Kabbalah. Cooperation and Conflict in the Seventeenth-century Poland-Lithuania. In: Lindstedt, I. - Hämeen-Anttila, J. - Mattila, R. - Rollinger, R. (eds): CaseStudies in Transmission. Munster, pp. 189199.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation
  • Vilna Siddur (18901892): Siddur hat-tefillot ke-minhag haq-qara’im [The prayer book in the custom of the Karaites]. Vols IIV. Vilna.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation
  • Walfish, B. - Kizilov M. (2011): Bibliographica Karaitica. An Annotated Bibliography of Karaites and Karaism. Leiden.

  • Weinberger, L. J. (1991): Rabbanite and Karaite Liturgical Poetry in South-Eastern Europe. Critical Edition with Introduction and Commentary by Leon J. Weinberger. Cincinnati.

    • Search Google Scholar
    • Export Citation
  • Weinberger, L. J. (1998): Jewish Hymnography: A Literary History. London-Portland, Oregon.

  • Yeshaya, J. (2011): Medieval Hebrew Poetry in Muslim Egypt. Leiden.

  • Yeshaya, J. (2014): Poetry and Memory in Karaite Prayer. Leiden.

  • Collapse
  • Expand

Senior editors

Editor(s)-in-Chief: Gábor KÓSA

Editorial Board

  • Benedek PÉRI (Eötvös Loránd University)
  • Ágnes BIRTALAN (Eötvös Loránd University)
  • Csaba DEZSŐ (Eötvös Loránd University)
  • Peter B. GOLDEN (Rutgers University)
  • Arlo GRIFFITHS (École française d'Extrême-Orient)
  • Imre HAMAR (Eötvös Loránd University)
  • Zoltán SZOMBATHY (Eötvös Loránd University)
  • István VÁSÁRY(Eötvös Loránd University)
  • Yutaka YOSHIDA (Kyoto University)
  • Peter ZIEME (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities)

 

Dr. Gábor Kósa
Editor-in-Chief
Institute of East Asian Studies
Eötvös Loránd University
Múzeum krt. 4/F
H-1088 Budapest, Hungary
kosa.gabor@btk.elte.hu

Indexing and Abstracting Services:

  • Arts and Humanities Citation Index
  • Bibliographie Linguistique/Linguistic Bibliography
  • Historical Abstracts
  • International Bibliographies IBZ and IBR
  • MLA International Bibliography
  • SCOPUS

2023  
Web of Science  
Journal Impact Factor 0.1
Rank by Impact Factor Q3 (History)
Journal Citation Indicator 0.68
Scopus  
CiteScore 0.4
CiteScore rank Q1 (Literature and Literary Theory)
SNIP 0.749
Scimago  
SJR index 0.302
SJR Q rank Q1

Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
Publication Model Hybrid
Submission Fee none
Article Processing Charge 900 EUR/article
Effective from  1st Feb 2025:
1200 EUR/article
Printed Color Illustrations 40 EUR (or 10 000 HUF) + VAT / piece
Regional discounts on country of the funding agency World Bank Lower-middle-income economies: 50%
World Bank Low-income economies: 100%
Further Discounts Editorial Board / Advisory Board members: 50%
Corresponding authors, affiliated to an EISZ member institution subscribing to the journal package of Akadémiai Kiadó: 100%
Subscription fee 2025 Online subsscription: 620 EUR / 684 USD
Print + online subscription: 716 EUR / 788 USD
Subscription Information Online subscribers are entitled access to all back issues published by Akadémiai Kiadó for each title for the duration of the subscription, as well as Online First content for the subscribed content.
Purchase per Title Individual articles are sold on the displayed price.

Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
Language English
Size B5
Year of
Foundation
1950
Volumes
per Year
1
Issues
per Year
4
Founder Magyar Tudományos Akadémia  
Founder's
Address
H-1051 Budapest, Hungary, Széchenyi István tér 9.
Publisher Akadémiai Kiadó
Publisher's
Address
H-1117 Budapest, Hungary 1516 Budapest, PO Box 245.
Responsible
Publisher
Chief Executive Officer, Akadémiai Kiadó
ISSN 0001-6446 (Print)
ISSN 1588-2667 (Online)