Karaite Jews in Czarist Russia

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Amer out of the 24 who were killed were Americans who had come to Lear Heaven I say 1 million Jewish children who were made to [Music] be th B whoever heard such beautiful words it is never too little it is never too late and it is Never Enough Jewish history sound bites bringing alive the world of our glorious past here is our host live from Jerusalem Jewish historian Jewish history sound bites and uh this episode we're going to speak about kite Jews in the Russian zaris Empire Karim uh last we in the when we' been discussing in not recent episodes but before recent episodes we discussed Russian jury under the Zars specifically Jews who lived outside the pale of settlement we spoke about privileged Jews who were permitted by special uh dispensation to reside outside of the pale then we had another episode on buaran and mountain and Georgian Jews who obviously did not live in the pale of settlement because their places of origin was in a different part of the Russian Empire and today we'll discuss the smallest numerically such group but also the most different and interesting the kites who lived in the Russian Empire um the through an interesting sequence of historical events they also were permitted to reside outside the pale along with the zarus government lifting all other sorts of restrictions which um which they said did not apply the government said to not apply to kites because the Russian government saw the kites as a distinct group from rabbinic Jews and it's a very interesting story um kites obviously are a Karim and Hebrew or Karim in Hebrew kites karaites in English um and they are a sect which still exists till this very day a group u in the within the Jewish people seemingly um that uh that only believes in the um written law the

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1. 1:04Amer out of the 24 who were killed were Americans who had come to Lear Heaven…
2. 4:42podcast history for the Curious he goes through the entire fascinating history of the kite communities…
3. 8:53south of villa called trai which is actually the ancient capital of of Lithuania uh in…
4. 12:57people altogether at a much later stage not in the 19th century in the 20th century…
5. 16:33would be recognized by thear as different than the Rabin Jewish identity and therefore of their…
6. 20:41religious conviction of the Russian Orthodox church so it was a result of how in the…
7. 24:51religious school attached to the sh to serve the Youth of the community and in the…
8. 28:22turkic people they're not racially from the Jews either um they're a different people there are…
9. 32:30actually still being determined until today we don't know until today from the F kovich collections…
10. 36:34secularization and therefore it's not unique to the Jewish story and here you have this tiny…

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