عنوان

A JEWISH PAN-TURKIST: SERAYA SZAPSZAŁ (ŞAPŞALOĞLU) AND HIS WORK "QIRIM QARAY TÜRKLERI" (1928) (JUDAEO-TÜRKICA XIII)

Number

LA99219

Title Proper

A JEWISH PAN-TURKIST: SERAYA SZAPSZAŁ (ŞAPŞALOĞLU) AND HIS WORK "QIRIM QARAY TÜRKLERI" (1928) (JUDAEO-TÜRKICA XIII)

General Material Designation

[Article]

First Statement of Responsibility

Dan D. Y. Shapira

Text of Note

The paper examines a highly interesting work Qırım Qarai Türkleri, published in Istanbul in 1928 by Seraya Şapşaloğlu (Seraja Szapszał in Polish sources), the renowned Karaite communal leader, one of the leading Russian Turkologists of his time, a former Czarist diplomat and a Jewish Pan-Turkist. This popular and quasi-scientific work was typical of the Romantic Period of the "nation-building" stage in the history of many Eastern European minorities. It was, however, essential in the presentation of the Türkic-speaking Eastern European and Crimean Karaite Jews as remnants of some imagined ancient Türkic race, clandestinely preserving Altaic paganism. Written in an appealing style, this work made a deep impression on the Early Republican intellectuals. In the present paper some of Szapszał's assertions made in this work are analysed against their historical and linguistic background. The paper touches on intellectual trends current during the Early Republican period, the state of the European, Russian and Turkish Turkology of the age, and the metamorphoses of the secularised communal consciousness.

Date of Publication

2005

Physical description

349--380

Title

Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae

Volume Number

58-4

Dan D. Y. Shapira

Country

ایران

Electronic name

p

[Article]

275578

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