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Daniel J. Lasker

Daniel J. Lasker is the Norbert Blechner Professor Emeritus of Jewish Values in the Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva.

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    Inventing the Karaites

    A story of historical forgery and fraud that saved a Jewish community from conscription and death, at the price of their authentic history and faith

    byDaniel J. Lasker
  • Karaite Kenesa (Synagogue) in Chufut Kale, Crimea, where Simhah Isaac Lutski spent the last 6 years of his life.
    Karaite Kenesa (Synagogue) in Chufut Kale, Crimea, where Simhah Isaac Lutski spent the last 6 years of his life.
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    The History of a Karaite Rabbi in Eastern Europe

    The story of Simhah Isaac Lutski helps explain how Karaite Jews retained their communal and doctrinal coherence amid other competing, more ‘European’ forms of Judaism

    byDaniel J. Lasker
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