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| | The 2003 CESNUR Conference - Karaites and Karaism (Kizilov) |
 | | A number of periodicals and books were published,[48] two functioning synagogues (keneseler) were opened (one in Troki and the other in Eupatoria), there was also a renewed interest in the study and use of the Karaim language. |
 | | One of the most tragic events in the history of the Lithuanian Karaites, was an epidemy of plague, which dwindled the population of Troki in 1710 (Abraham Szyszman, «Osadnictwo karaimskie w Trokach za Wielkich Książąt Litewskich,» MK 11 (1936), 68, ft.71; Szyszman, Karaites d'Europe, 52). |
 | | In Troki, similarly, for certain period the Karaites could secretly perform services in the local synagogue-kenese, but then it was forbidden more strictly. |
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