A handwritten collection of Karaim proverbs and adages in north-western Karaim found in the archive of Aleksander Mardkowicz
Anna Sulimowicz-Keruth
anna.sulimowicz@uw.edu.plUniversity of Warsaw, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Department of Turkish Studies and Inner Asian Peoples (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4560-8936
Abstract
The private archive of Aleksander Mardkowicz (1875–1944), a Łuck Karaite activist, writer and editor, includes a manuscript written in the north-western dialect of Karaim. It contains 8 proverbs and a didactic-moralistic text copied from an unknown source. It was composed most probably in the early 1930s by Rafał Grygulewicz (1905–1992), a Karaite youth activist from Poniewież (Panevežys). The paper is a critical edition of the manuscript augmented with a translation, glossary and facsimile. It also contains biographical information on the copyist as well as on the possible circumstances that led to the drafting of the manuscript.
Keywords:
north-western Karaim, Karaites of Panevežys, Aleksander Mardkowicz, Rapolas Grigulevičius, Karaim proverbs, Rafal GrygulewiczReferences
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Authors
Anna Sulimowicz-Keruthanna.sulimowicz@uw.edu.pl
University of Warsaw, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Department of Turkish Studies and Inner Asian Peoples Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4560-8936
An assistant professor (Pol. adiunkt) in the Department of Turkish Studies and Inner Asian Peoples of the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Warsaw. She studied Turkish philology at the University of Warsaw and holds a ThD degree in Jewish Studies (Charles University 2018). She is the secretary of the Polish Karaims Association and editorial board member of the journal Almanach Karaimski. Her research interests focus on the history of Lutsk Karaims. In 2012–2016 she participated in a project entitled A catalogue of Karaim manuscripts and old prints in Polish collections financed by National Science Centre of Poland. Currently she is a member of the research team of the European Research Council (ERC) project entitled (Re)constructing a Bible. A new approach to unedited Biblical manuscripts as sources for the early history of the Karaim language conducted by Michał Németh, PhD at the Jagiellonian University. Translator of Karaim and Turkish literature - she translated into Polish five novels of the Turkish Nobel Prize holder Orhan Pamuk. E-mail address: anna.sulimowicz@uw.edu.pl.
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