Polygamy of the East-European Karaites: An Unknown Document from Crimea
Polygamy of the East-European Karaites: An Unknown Document from Crimea

Summary/Abstract: The article includes an edition of a Karaite manuscript from Crimea (1810; the State Archive of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Fond 241.1. 1429). The manuscript is a copy of a document prepared by the Karaite court in Gözleve. Its contents involve explanatory proceedings in the procedure for granting Gershon Kohen, member of the community, a permission to marry a second wife. There is likelihood that the document evidences the last case, or one of the last cases, of polygyny in the community of the Crimean Karaites.

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