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Karaite Encyclopaedia, 126; for Karaite rules on Sabbath and dietary laws,
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in nineteenth- century Russia, see P. Miller, ‘The Karaites of Czarist Russia, 1780-
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see Schur, History of the Karaites, 123 - 5; on Karaites in contemporary Israel, see
E. T. Semi, ‘From Egypt to Israel: The Birth of a Karaite ʿEdah in Israel’, in Polli-
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Chapter 13: Rabbis in the West
- S. Schwarzfuchs, A Concise History of the Rabbinate (Oxford, 1993), 38 -
- M. Perani, Talmudic and Midrashic Fragments from the Italian Genizah
(Florence, 2004), on the ‘Italian Genizah’; S. Emanuel, ‘The “European Genizah”
and its Contribution to Jewish Studies’, Henoch 19.3 (1997), 313 - 40. 3. On
Hananel b. Hushiel and Nissim b. Yaakov, see T. Fishman, Becoming the People
of the Talmud (Philadelphia, 2011), 68 - 71; on Rashi and his influence, see
A. Grossman, Rashi (Oxford, 2012). 4. R. Brody, The Geonim of Babylonia
and the Shaping of Medieval Jewish Culture (New Haven, 1998), 198; Sefer ha-
Qabbalah 62 - 3 in G. D. Cohen, ed., A Critical Edition of the Book of Tradition
(Sefer ha‑ Qabbalah) (London, 1967), 66 (on the Book of Tradition ); on Meir b.
Baruch, see I. A. Agus, Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg (Philadelphia, 1947). 5. On
- M. Perani, Talmudic and Midrashic Fragments from the Italian Genizah