Some of the rare Karaite literature that has actually seen the light of day.
B’ezrat Hashem, this November I’ll be speaking at a synagogue in Maryland. The topic for this talk is Karaite Judaism: The Rise and Fall of a Movement. Although most of what I speak about is uplifting, Karaite Jews need to come face to face with why the movement fell – and to some extent failed.
Filed under Jacob ben Reuben, Lithuania, Salmon ben Yeruham, Yefet ben 'Ali
The gift that keeps on giving.
Israel’s recent (and maybe ongoing?) war with Hamas prompted me to look into whether there was ever a Karaite Jewish presence in what is now referred to as the Gaza Strip. As far as I know, no Karaites lived in the Strip in 2005 when then Prime Minister of Israel Ariel Sharon evicted the Jewish residents there.
But I was surprised to learn that Gaza (the city, not the strip) featured in several aspects of medieval Jewish life.
Filed under Aviv, Mourners of Zion, Salmon ben Yeruham
