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Karaites

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Noun1.Karaites - a Jewish sect that recognizes only the Hebrew Scriptures as the source of divinely inspired legislation and denies the authority of the postbiblical tradition of the Talmud; the sect arose in Iraq in the eighth century
religious order, religious sect, sect - a subdivision of a larger religious group


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9789004166028 The Karaites of Galicia; an ethnoreligious minority among the Ashkenazim, the Turks, and the Slavs, 1772-1945.
A 40-minute trip outside the city brings you to this traditional restaurant with food and coffee from the ancient Karaites religion.
This is analogous to the situation with the Karaites later, some of whom who remain Jews till this day and others that have clearly left Jewishness entirely.
 
 
 
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