19th-century Karaite Jewish writer and archaeologist
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Abraham Firkovich
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Born
(1786-09-27)September 27, 1786
Lutsk, Volhynia
Died
June 7, 1874(1874-06-07) (aged 87)
Çufut Qale, Crimea
Occupation(s)
Writer and archeologist
Abraham (Avraham) ben Samuel Firkovich (Hebrew אברהם בן שמואל - Avraham ben Shmuel; Karayce: Аврагъам Фиркович - Avragham Firkovich) (Sept. 27, 1786–June 7, 1874) was a famous Karaite writer and archaeologist, collector of ancient manuscripts, and a Karaite Hakham. He was born in Lutsk, Volhynia, then lived in Lithuania, and finally settled in Çufut Qale, Crimea, where he also died. Gabriel Firkovich of Troki was his son-in-law.
Abraham (Avraham) ben Samuel Firkovich (Hebrew אברהם בן שמואל - Avraham ben Shmuel; Karayce: Аврагъам Фиркович - Avragham Firkovich) (Sept. 27, 1786–June...
Two collections of his Hebrew poetry are found in the collection of AbrahamFirkovich now in Saint-Petersburg. The earlier, Sefer Zeraḥ (1489), contains...
because its source is closer in both time and space to his death. AbrahamFirkovich had previously held the opinion that Saadia Gaon was born in 862,...
critical investigation of the history of the Karaites, with notes by AbrahamFirkovich (Vilna, 1865). In the same year were published his Yerushalayim, a...
of AbrahamFirkovich, who on occasion forged documents and inscriptions. Dan Shapira expressed certainty that the document is a forgery by Firkovich and...
the fortress stands the Shoana Church (ca. 925), first described by AbrahamFirkovich in 1848. The town was destroyed by Tamerlane during his invasion of...
revealed, but created and compiled by Jesus and his disciples. Hakham AbrahamFirkovich believed Jesus himself was actually a Karaite. Controversial hakham...
would be free of the oppressive laws. The community leaders charged AbrahamFirkovich (1786-1874) with gathering anything that could help show that Karaites...
Library of Russia, accessioned as "Firkovich B 19 A". Its former owner, the Crimean Karaite collector AbrahamFirkovich, left no indication in his writings...
the fields and the lands and settled in this town 330 families …") .AbrahamFirkovich // The Hebrew Monuments of the Crimea, p. 252— Wilna 1872 (ספר אבני...
from 1882 Alojzy Feliński (1771–1820), Polish scientist and writer AbrahamFirkovich (1786–1874) a Karaite writer and Hakham and collector of ancient manuscripts...
Lipa Feingold (1878–1945), American jeweler and composer AbrahamFirkovich, Karaite hakham Abraham Goldfaden (1840–1908), considered the father of the Jewish...
From 1870 they began to use the "Everyday Prayers for Karaites" by AbrahamFirkovich (1870, Vilnius) for their liturgy, which in 1882 they were allowed...
such scholars as D. M. Dunlop, as it passed through the hands of AbrahamFirkovich, who is known to have forged documents and inscriptions on occasion...
Blavatsky, founder of Theosophy Olga Dibrova, Ukrainian diplomat AbrahamFirkovich, leader of the Crimean Karaites Seraya Shapshal, chief Hakham of the...
European Jews. Three years later, however, in 1872, a Crimean Karaite, AbrahamFirkovich, alternatively proclaimed that the members of his Turkic-speaking...
the first exile by an Assyrian king (720s BCE). The Karaim scholar AbrahamFirkovich collected the documents arguing in favor of this theory before the...
(1974, NY, Ktav Publ'g House) pages 773-814. Harvianen, Tarpani, AbrahamFirkovich, the Aleppo Codex, and Its Dedication, in Borrás, Judit T., and Sáenz-Badillos...
earliest Latin chronogram is dated five years later. According to AbrahamFirkovich, Hebrew chronograms date back to 582; but the inscriptions cited by...
Jews of the Crimea descend from Khazars. In 1839, the Karaim scholar AbrahamFirkovich was appointed by the Russian government as a researcher into the origins...
until Adolf Neubauer discovered, among the manuscript collection of AbrahamFirkovich in Saint Petersburg, important fragments in Arabic of the Mushtamil...
of the Al-Riyad wal-Hada'iq are still extant in manuscript, in the AbrahamFirkovich collection in the National Library of Russia (Nos. 1142-1444). The...
(Letter on Inheritance). These three works have been published by AbrahamFirkovich (Eupatoria, 1835) with the second edition of the Aderet. (4) Haluqat...
Byzantine court physician. The alleged gravestone of Donnolo, found by AbrahamFirkovich in the Crimea, is evidently spurious.[citation needed] Donnolo is...
Хоральная Синагога в Санкт-Петербурге. СПб.: «Конструкт», 2006. 10. AbrahamFirkovich de Karaïet en zijn verzameling Hebreeuwse en Samaritaanse manuscripten...
(alphabets 163 ב, 168 ס, 173 נ). There exists also a fragment which AbrahamFirkovich entitled Sefer ha-Yalqut and attributed to Hadassi, while Pinsker...
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