From: William J Poser (wjposer@ldc.upenn.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 12 2007 - 23:07:29 CDT
The Karaites are of interest for several other reasons. In Russia
they managed to persuade the czars that they were not responsible
for the death of Jesus and thereby got themselves exempted from
much of the persecution to which Jews were otherwise subjected.
The Lithuanian/Polish Karaites speak a Turkic language
with the very unusual property of having consonantal palatal
harmony.
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