Addendum to Tatar–Karaim Relations during and after the Interwar Period. Hakhan Haji Seraya Shapshal and the Grand Mufti Dr Jakub Szynkiewicz
Abstract
This article discusses the relations between Crimean Karaites and Tatars in Poland in the more distant past, during the the Second Polish Republic and also throughout World War II. It describes the relationship between the spiritual leader of the Karaites (Karaims) Haji Seraya Shapshal and the Grand Mufti of all Muslims in Poland – Jakub Szynkiewicz, their relationship during World War II, and additionally the role played by the Tatars in saving the the Karaims from extermination at the hands of the Nazi Germans in Vilnius in 1941–1944. Moreover, the author mentions scholars and orientalists with a Karaim background writing about Polish Tatars. This scholarly piece should encourage further research on this issue. It appears to be an academic problem worth investigating.
Keywords:
Crimean Tatars, Crimean Karaites (Karaims), Hajji Seraya Shapshal, the Grand Mufti in Poland Jakub SzynkiewiczAuthors
Selim Chazbijewiczteleboga@wp.pl
Wydział Nauk Społecznych, Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski Poland
Doktor habilitowany nauk politycznych od 2002 na Wydziale Nauk Społecznych Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, profesor nadzwyczajny Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie. Członek Komitetu Nauk Orientalistycznych Polskiej Akademii Nauk. Członek Prawa i Sprawiedliwości, przewodniczący Społecznego Ruchu im. Lecha Kaczyńskiego na Warmii i Mazurach, Rady Organizacji Pozarządowych Miasta Olsztyna i Rady Programowej TVP Olsztyn. Członek Stowarzyszenia Pisarzy Polskich, autor wielu artykułów naukowych, książek, wierszy i poematów. Urodzony w rodzinie wileńskich repatriantów, polsko-litewskich Tatarów.
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