Abraham (Avraham) ben Samuel Firkovich (Hebrew אברהם בן שמואל - Avraham ben Shmuel; Karayce: Аврагъам Фиркович - Avragham Firkovich) (Sept. 27, 1786–June...
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Two collections of his Hebrew poetry are found in the collection of Abraham Firkovich now in Saint-Petersburg. The earlier, Sefer Zeraḥ (1489), contains...
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because its source is closer in both time and space to his death. Abraham Firkovich had previously held the opinion that Saadia Gaon was born in 862,...
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revealed, but created and compiled by Jesus and his disciples. Hakham Abraham Firkovich believed Jesus himself was actually a Karaite. Controversial hakham...
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Library of Russia, accessioned as "Firkovich B 19 A". Its former owner, the Crimean Karaite collector Abraham Firkovich, left no indication in his writings...
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critical investigation of the history of the Karaites, with notes by Abraham Firkovich (Vilna, 1865). In the same year were published his Yerushalayim, a...
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would be free of the oppressive laws. The community leaders charged Abraham Firkovich (1786-1874) with gathering anything that could help show that Karaites...
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question is of uncertain authenticity, as it passed through the hands of Abraham Firkovich, who on occasion forged documents and inscriptions.[citation needed]...
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the fortress stands the Shoana Church (ca. 925), first described by Abraham Firkovich in 1848. The town was destroyed by Tamerlane during his invasion of...
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from 1882 Alojzy Feliński (1771–1820), Polish scientist and writer Abraham Firkovich (1786–1874) a Karaite writer and Hakham and collector of ancient manuscripts...
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exercised great influence upon their neighbors, the Khazars. The ḥakam Abraham Firkovich, who was very skilful in falsifying epitaphs and manuscripts, pretended...
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the fields and the lands and settled in this town 330 families …") .Abraham Firkovich // The Hebrew Monuments of the Crimea, p. 252— Wilna 1872 (ספר אבני...
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earliest Latin chronogram is dated five years later. According to Abraham Firkovich, Hebrew chronograms date back to 582; but the inscriptions cited by...
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From 1870 they began to use the "Everyday Prayers for Karaites" by Abraham Firkovich (1870, Vilnius) for their liturgy, which in 1882 they were allowed...
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Lipa Feingold (1878–1945), American jeweler and composer Abraham Firkovich, Karaite hakham Abraham Goldfaden (1840–1908), considered the father of the Jewish...
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European Jews. Three years later, however, in 1872, a Crimean Karaite, Abraham Firkovich, alternatively proclaimed that the members of his Turkic-speaking...
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the first exile by an Assyrian king (720s BCE). The Karaim scholar Abraham Firkovich collected the documents arguing in favor of this theory before the...
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Blavatsky, founder of Theosophy Olga Dibrova, Ukrainian diplomat Abraham Firkovich, leader of the Crimean Karaites Seraya Shapshal, chief Hakham of the...
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Jews of the Crimea descend from Khazars. In 1839, the Karaim scholar Abraham Firkovich was appointed by the Russian government as a researcher into the origins...
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(1974, NY, Ktav Publ'g House) pages 773-814. Harvianen, Tarpani, Abraham Firkovich, the Aleppo Codex, and Its Dedication, in Borrás, Judit T., and Sáenz-Badillos...
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chaps. i.-lix., was edited under the title "Mibḥar Yesharim," by Abraham Firkovich, who completed the commentary on Isaiah, at Eupatoria, 1835; better...
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until Adolf Neubauer discovered, among the manuscript collection of Abraham Firkovich in Saint Petersburg, important fragments in Arabic of the Mushtamil...
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Abraham Harkavy, Zikaron Larishonim, St. Petersburg 1892, pp. 205–209 (Hebrew) Saadia Gaon, Introduction to Sefer Ha-Iggaron (ed. Abraham Firkovich)...
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such scholars as D. M. Dunlop, as it passed through the hands of Abraham Firkovich, who is known to have forged documents and inscriptions on occasion...
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of the Al-Riyad wal-Hada'iq are still extant in manuscript, in the Abraham Firkovich collection in the National Library of Russia (Nos. 1142-1444). The...
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quotations have apparently been intentionally suppressed by Firkovich in his edition (see Abraham Harkavy, Altjüdische Denkmäler aus der Krim, p. 211, note...
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(alphabets 163 ב, 168 ס, 173 נ). There exists also a fragment which Abraham Firkovich entitled Sefer ha-Yalqut and attributed to Hadassi, while Pinsker...
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(Letter on Inheritance). These three works have been published by Abraham Firkovich (Eupatoria, 1835) with the second edition of the Aderet. (4) Haluqat...
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Byzantine court physician. The alleged gravestone of Donnolo, found by Abraham Firkovich in the Crimea, is evidently spurious.[citation needed] Donnolo is...
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Egypt. They were driven to do so because of their extreme privation. Abraham Firkovich (1786–1874) mentions also the codex in his writings. Sapir heaps lavish...
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