The Trilingual Prayer Copied by Avraham Firkowicz

The First Hebrew, Judeo-Slavic, and Crimean Judeo-Turkic Trilingual Text

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ID17823976
AuthorsAlexander I Grishchenko (0000-0001-7170-365X, National Research University Higher School of Economics, corresponding author), Dan Shapira (0000-0002-7296-9385, Bar-Ilan University)
Year2021
Volume9
Issue1
Pages100-149
Publication date2021-05-17
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Jewish Languages (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2213-4387 • E-ISSN: 2213-4638
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/22134638-bja10012
OpenAlexW3163644632
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited2

This article presents a unique trilingual (Hebrew, Turkic, and Slavic) religious literary work from the personal archive of Avraham Firkowicz (National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg). The text, containing 129 lines (verses) in Hebrew characters, is written in Firkowicz’s own hand. Its author has not been reliably identified, but it is assumed that he could be a Karaite Jew from Łuck / Lutsk (Wolhynia, present-day Ukraine) with a good speaking-level knowledge of Slavic and Turkish (e.g., Joseph-Solomon Lutski or Mordechai Sultanski). The language of the Turkic version is a variety of Crimean Judeo-Turkic with many Turkish (Oğuz) features; the language of the Slavic version is based on standard Russian of the early 19th century with Church Slavonic, Ukrainian, and Polish elements

Art · Hebrew · Linguistics · Literature · Prayer · Slavic languages · Theology · Turkish · Classics · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Linguistics and Cultural Studies · Medieval and Classical Philosophy · Philosophy

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