| LC control no. | sh 00009850 |
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| Topical heading | Krimchaks |
| Variant(s) | Crimean Jews Krymchaki Krymchaks |
| See also | Ethnology--Ukraine Jews--Ukraine |
| Found in | Work cat.: Krymchaki, 2000: t.p. (Krymchaki) p. 3 (small ethnic group in the Crimea) The Krymchaks : a vanishing group in the Soviet Union, 1989. The Krimchaks : their life and origin in the Crimea, 1916. Jewish encyc.: v. 4, p. 360, under Crimea (the Krimchaki, one of three classes of Jews in the Crimea, the others are the Karaites and the Polish-Lithuanian Jews; the Krimchaki are the oldest settlers of the area, perhaps from the 6th century; they are centered in Karasu-Bazar) Encyc. Judaica: v. 5, cols. 1104-1106 (Krimchaks) Blackwell dict. Judaica, c1992 (Krimchaks) The universal Jewish encyc., c1939-c1943: v. 3, p. 412, under Crimea (Crimean Jews or Krymchaks; indigenous to the Crimea; mainly established in Simferopol, Karasu-Bazar, Theodosia and Sebastopol) The red book of the people of the Russian Empire WWW website, Oct. 26, 2000 (Crimean Jews; Krymchaks; they have lived in the Crimea for hundreds of years; the present population is about 1800, with ca. 1200 in the Crimea and the rest in Palestine and the US) |
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