'''Karaite Judaism''' is the 20th Century culmination of centuries of Jewish opposition. It was crystallized by an East European [[Karaite]] Turkic Judaizer, Tuvia Levi Babovich, who moved to Cairo to save the ignorant and decrepit communities of Egyptian Qaraites from oblivion by merging his tradition with theirs. Although Tuvia brought with him some Karaite followers from Eastern Europe, and the new religion came to be known as Karaite Judaism even after the last of the original Karaites in Tuvia's movement had passed away. It survives today thanks to the [http://www.karaite.org.il/ Universal Karaite Judaism] organization based in Israel.
It is sometimes proposed that that the modern state of Israel (which was founded on the back of the Subbotnik migrations) could operate better as a Karaite Jewish state and this has led to a massive concerted effort to deny the Subbotnik origins of Tuvia Levi Babovich in order to increase Karaite Judaism's appeal as an alternative for reform Jews whose religion is not recognized by the state of Israel.
