title: Agenda in Karaite Printing in the Crimea During the Middle Third of the Nineteenth Century
abstract: he 1830s were perhaps the most significant decade for the history of the Karaites in the Russian empire, for, after more than forty years of persistent petitioning, the Russ JL ian government then took the first formal steps toward recognizing the Karaites as a nation separate and apart from Jews,rather than as a sect or off-shoot of Judaism! In 1837, legislation established a Karaite religious consistory, by which action the Karaite form of the Mosaic faith was given legitimacy as a religion se