Crimean Karaites

From Wikinoah English
Jump to: navigation, search

Centred on Evpatoria, they first appear in the Russian Empire under the Giray treasurer Benjamin Aga who petitioned Catherine the Great through Count Zubov to exempt his people from the double taxation imposed on the Jews.

In 1919 they evicted Seraya Shapshal who fled to Austro-Hungarian Serbia then 9 years later led Poland's Karaimai.

In 1934 Tovia Levi-Babovich formulated what has become known as Karaite Judaism.