Firkovich Collection

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The Firkovich Collection is a renowned assemblage of Jewish manuscripts and documents, particularly Karaite and Hebrew texts, gathered in the 19th century by Abraham Firkovich and now housed in the National Library of Russia.

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instanceOf Jewish manuscript collection
archival collection
manuscript collection
acquisitionMethod donation
field collecting
purchase
associatedWith Caucasian Jewish communities
Crimean Karaites NERFINISHED
Karaite Judaism NERFINISHED
collectionFocus Hebrew manuscripts
Jewish historical documents
Karaite manuscripts
collector Abraham Firkovich NERFINISHED
collectorActivityPeriod first half of the 19th century
collectorOrigin Crimea NERFINISHED
collectorReligiousAffiliation Karaite
contains Karaite liturgical texts
biblical manuscripts
community records
epigraphic copies and inscriptions
legal documents
rabbinic manuscripts
controversy allegations of document falsification by Abraham Firkovich
countryOfOrigin Russian Empire
curatedBy National Library of Russia Oriental Manuscripts Department NERFINISHED
hasPart First Firkovich Collection NERFINISHED
Second Firkovich Collection NERFINISHED
inception 19th century
languageOfMaterial Arabic
Aramaic
Hebrew
Karaim NERFINISHED
locatedIn St. Petersburg
surface form: Saint Petersburg
locatedInCountry Russia NERFINISHED
location National Library of Russia NERFINISHED
namedAfter Abraham Firkovich NERFINISHED
repositoryIdentifier National Library of Russia Firkovich Collections NERFINISHED
researchUse critical editions of Hebrew Bible
studies of Karaite law and liturgy
significance important for the history of the Hebrew Bible text
important for the study of Jewish epigraphy
major source for the study of Jewish communities in the Crimea and Caucasus
major source for the study of Karaite history
subjectArea Jewish history
Karaite studies
Semitic philology
biblical studies

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Leningrad Codex collection Firkovich Collection