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  The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire
It is assumed that the Krymchaks only began to be known as such after the Crimea had been annexed to Russia at the end of the 18th century.
By the end of the decade the number of Krymchak residents in Karasu Bazar, their historic centre, was negligible.
The formation of the Krymchaks as an ethnic group began in the 13th--14th centuries on the Crimean Peninsula and the process was completed by the end of the 19th century.
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  Krymchak
The Krymchaks are a community of Rabbinical Jews of the Crimean peninsula.
Krymchak is a Russian descriptive used to differentiate them from their Ashkenazi coreligionists, as well as other Jewish communities in the former Russian Empire such as the Gruzim.
During the period of Khazar rule, intermarriage between Crimean Jews and Khazars is likely, and the Krymchaks probably absorbed numerous Khazar refugees during the decline and fall of the Khazar kingdom (a Khazar Successor state, ruled by Georgius Tzul, was centered on Kerch).
www.ufaqs.com /wiki/en/kr/Krymchak.htm   (852 words)

  
 Science Fair Projects - Krymchak
The Krymchaks were thereafter subjected to the same humiliations imposed on other Jews in Russia.
Under Stalin, the Krymchaks were forbidden to write in Hebrew and were ordered to employ a Cyrillic alphabet to write their own language.
Krymchaks were compelled to work in factories and collective farms.
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Krymchak   (993 words)

  
  Krymchak language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Krymchak language (кърымчах тыльы) is the language spoken in Crimea by the Krymchak people.
In the Soviet Union in the 1930s this language was written with the Uniform Turkic Alphabet (a variant of the Latin alphabet), like Crimean Tatar and Karaim).
Only about a thousand Krymchak people remain in Crimea.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Krymchak_language   (166 words)

  
 «KRYMSCHAKS AND KARAIMS OF CRIMEA» - ALEXANDER NAIMAN
This was done by a board member of the Crimean society of Krymchaks Igor Achkinazi and chairman of the Society of Crimean Karaims Vladimir Orneli.
In the XIV - XVI centuries Krymchaks resided mainly in Kafa.
Krymchak liturgy of the early XVIII century was based on it.
www.jewukr.org /observer/jo24_43/p0101_e.html   (501 words)

  
 Krymchaks at AllExperts
At first krymchak was a Russian descriptive used to differentiate them from their Ashkenazi coreligionists, as well as other Jewish communities in the former Russian Empire such as the Gruzim, but in the second half of the 19th century this name was adopted by the Krymchaks themselves.
Many Krymchaks were killed in the fighting between the Red Army, the White Movement and the Green Army.
A few hundred Krymchaks still clinging to their Crimean identity live in the United States and Israel: animator Ralph Bakshi is the most famous of these.
en.allexperts.com /e/k/kr/krymchaks.htm   (942 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Krymchak language
Krymchak is the Crimean Tatar language dialect spoken by the Krymchaks - Rabbanite Jews of the Crimea.
The word Jew (Hebrew: יהודי;) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes.
Krymchak is the Crimean Tatar dialect spoken by the Krymchaks - Rabbanite Jews of the Crimea.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Krymchak-language   (1708 words)

  
 Crimean Karaites - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The related Krymchak community, which was of similar ethnolinguistic background but which practiced rabbinical Judaism, continued to suffer under Tsarist anti-Jewish laws.
On interrogation, Ashkenazi and Krymchak rabbis in Crimea told the Germans that the Karaims were not Jews, in an effort to spare the Karaite community the fate of their Rabbanite neighbors.
According to a letter of September 27 1944, penned by Chancellor Gerhard Klopfer, an estimated 500-600 Crimean Karaims were fighting in the Wehrmacht, Waffen SS and Tatar Legion.
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To the Krymchaks it was a particular truth, since they could compare their fate with the fate of the Karaites with whom they had lived for so long side by side, sometimes in the same towns and even streets.
Be that as it may, in the fifties and the sixties, a new generation of Krymchaks was born, to whom the question of ethnic self-identification was never a matter of choice, as it had been to the previous generation.
The closing of Krymchak synagogues was accompanied by a humiliating "anti-religious campaign." Thus, in Sevastopol a former Krymchak rabbi had to shave his beard and to shout out from the stage of a club in the presence of his parish: "I have cheated you all my life.
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 Conferences and Symposia
It seems that the EG transferred the Karaite and Krymchak question to the higher authorities because to grant such an exemption for the whole group was the exclusive prerogative of the highest Reich authorities.
It is interesting that the Karaites fared well even after the Soviet rule: after their return in 1944 the ever-suspecting Soviet authorities seemed to overlook the Karaites’ collaboration with the Germans and the former were not only deported from the Crimea like other nations accused of collaboration but regarded on a par with Jews, i.
Yet, owing to this renewed inquiry hundreds of the Krymchaks in Kerch were spared from the extermination as the Soviet troops landed in the area in the late December 1941.
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Before World War II the Krymchak population was estimated at 8,000, but the Nazis reduced their numbers by 80% and Soviet deportations in 1944 further lowered their number.
The Krymchak language is a very interesting linguistic phenomenon due to its lexical connections with other Turkic languages, such as Chuvash, Karachay, Balkar, Kara?m and partly Kumyk, Bashkir as well as some Finnish languages of the Volga Basin.
Among these manuscripts are Krymchak dictionaries and grammars written in the 19th century and various fiction compositions from the early 20th century.
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 Crimea commemorates Jewish and Krymchak victims of Nazi invaders' genocide during WWII / News / NRCU
Crimea commemorates Jewish and Krymchak victims of Nazi invaders' genocide during WWII / News / NRCU
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Under the German invaders' occupation of Crimea 80 percent of Crimean Krymchaks were exterminated, along with thousands upon thousands of Crimean Jews.
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 Krymchaks   (Site not responding. Last check: )
At first krymchak was a Russian descriptive used to differentiate them from their Ashkenazi coreligionists, as well as other Jewish communities in the former Russian Empire such as the Georgian Jews, but in the second half of the 19th century this name was adopted by the Krymchaks themselves.
The Krimchaks or Krymchaks: according to Angrick, they were descendants of Spanish Sephardic Jews who no longer adhered to the Jewish religion (other information on the Krimchaks can be found here); 3.
The Turkic languages spoken by Krymchaks and Karaims are related to Crimean Tatar.
www.findnew.info /Krymchaks   (1130 words)

  
 Krymchak language Information
The Krymchak language (кърымчах тыльы) is the language spoken in Crimea by the; Krymchak people.
When in May 1944 almost all Crimean Tatars were deported to Soviet Uzbekistan, many speakers of Krymchak were among them, and some remained in Uzbekistan.
According to the Ukrainian census of 2001, less than 300 Krymchak people remain in Crimea, and just about a hundred people still can speak the language.
krymchak-language.zdnet.co.za /zdnet/Krymchak_language   (277 words)

  
 "Melodies at the Right Hand of Eternity"   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Published in Jerusalem in 1902, "Ne'iymot B'yemin Netzah" is the collective title of a trilogy of prayers and petitions that were common among the Krymchak Jews.
The translation was prepared by Rabbi Nissim Halevi Tchatchir ("Tchatchir" is the transliteration of his surname according to the unique Krymchak pronunciation of Hebrew; in classical Hebrew the name would be pronounced "Tzah'tzir," with a hard "h").
A dynamic, revered and almost legendary figure among the Krymchaks, he had served in Karasu-Bazar as their Chief Rabbi from 1866 to 1899.
turkolog.narod.ru /info/I292.htm   (307 words)

  
 Wikipedia search result
The Krymchak language (кърымчах тыльы) is the language spoken in Crimea by the Krymchak people.
In the Soviet Union in the 1930s this language was written with the Uniform Turkic Alphabet (a variant of the Latin alphabet), like Crimean Tatar and Karaim).
According to the Ukrainian census of 2001, less than 300 Krymchak people remain in Crimea, and just about a hundred people still can speak the language.
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 Lowlands-L Anniversary Celebration   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Furthermore, there is a Crimean Tatar movement seeking to replace the Cyrillic script for spelling Crimean Tatar (which had been forced upon all Turkic peoples under Stalin’s regime) with a Roman-based one that shares much with the systems used for Azeri and Turkish.
Krymchak is the very closest relative of Crimean Tatar, might best be considered a dialect of it.
It is used by so-called “Krymchaks,” namely by Turkisized Crimean Jews, and its main feature consists of Hebrew-derived lexical elements.
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 Chanukah Came Early... - turkolog.narod.ru
The last time I “discovered” a genuine Krymchak (landsman from Crimea) was more than 30 years ago.
Standing at the entrance to this huge outdoor bazaar was none other than Misha Izmerli, the Krymchak whom we had met the day before.
Stumbling on a Krymchak out of the blue and in Israel was startling enough.
turkolog.narod.ru /info/crk-32.htm   (1752 words)

  
 Jew-to-Jew Debate--Beliefnet.com
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On interrogation, Crimean rabbis told the Germans that the Karaim were not Jews, in an effort to spare the Karaite community the fate of their Krymchak and Ashkenazi neighbors.
According to a letter of September 27 1944, penned by Chancellor Gerhard Klopfer, an estimated 500-600 Crimean Karaim were fighting in the Wehrmacht, Waffen SS and Tatar Legion.
www.beliefnet.com /boards/message_list.asp?pageID=5&discussionID=455471&messages_per_page=4   (423 words)

  
 Krymchak Language Encyclopedia Article @ InnerMan.com (Inner Man)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
This page contains quite a lot of relevant information about Krymchak language.
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More Krymchak Language Page Titles on this Site
www.innerman.com /encyclopedia/Krymchak_language   (241 words)

  
 info: Krymchak   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian EmpireThe self-designation krymchak (êðûì÷àêè in Russian) is derived from the name of the Crimean Peninsula.
Peaches • Krymchak • Vazhuri Krymchak Krymchak (Kirimula) – a Crimean variety.
Séfarade - WikipédiaJuhuri · Krymchak · Karaim · Knaanique · Yévanique · Tsarphatique.
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