Open AccessZ badań Ananiasza Zajączkowskiego nad folklorem karaimskim
Author(s) -
Piotr Muchowski
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
almanach karaimski
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2300-8164
pISSN - 2353-5466
DOI - 10.33229/ak.2014.3.08
Subject(s) - folklore , lithuanian , magic (telescope) , history , hebrew , classics , literature , mythology , ancient history , art , philosophy , linguistics , physics , quantum mechanics
This article deals with Professor Ananiasz Zajączkowski’s work on the folklore of the Polish-Lithuanian Karaites before the First World War. Ananiasz Zajączkowski authored several articles in which he edited and/or described manuscripts in the Karaite language. These manuscripts, which included works on fortune-telling, magic and herbalism, originated in late 19th-century Lithuania. The article describes the genesis of works on Karaite folklore and challenges Ananiasz Zajączkowski’s thesis regarding the origins of the Turkic peoples. It quotes a number of Hebrew manuscripts kept in Karaite collections and proves that most of the works have been translated into the Karaite language.