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Mikhail Kizilov ( uk, Михаил Борисович Кизилов; born on 27 June 1974 in
Simferopol Simferopol () is the second-largest city in the Crimea, Crimean Peninsula. The city, along with the rest of Crimea, is internationally recognised as part of Ukraine, and is considered the capital of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. However, ...
). He works on the history of Crimea in the
Late Middle Ages The Late Middle Ages or Late Medieval Period was the Periodization, period of European history lasting from AD 1300 to 1500. The Late Middle Ages followed the High Middle Ages and preceded the onset of the early modern period (and in much of Eur ...
and Modern Times and on
Jews Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...
,
Khazars The Khazars ; he, כּוּזָרִים, Kūzārīm; la, Gazari, or ; zh, 突厥曷薩 ; 突厥可薩 ''Tūjué Kěsà'', () were a semi-nomadic Turkic people that in the late 6th-century CE established a major commercial empire coverin ...
and
Karaism Karaite Judaism () or Karaism (, sometimes spelt Karaitism (; ''Yahadut Qara'it''); also spelt Qaraite Judaism, Qaraism or Qaraitism) is a Jewish religious movement characterized by the recognition of the written Torah alone as its supreme a ...
in Eastern Europe, especially in Crimea, Poland, Ukraine and Lithuania.


Life

He studied history at the Simferopol State University, Medieval Studies at the
Central European University Central European University (CEU) is a private research university accredited in Austria, Hungary, and the United States, with campuses in Vienna and Budapest. The university is known for its highly intensive programs in the social sciences and ...
in Budapest and Jewish and Hebrew Studies at the
University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...
(2004-2007). From 2007, Kizilov holds a DPhil (PhD) in modern history from Oxford University (United Kingdom) with his dissertation ''The Karaites, a religious and linguistic minority in eastern Galicia (Ukraine) 1772-1945''. His doctoral advisor was R. J. W. Evans. Kizilov was a visiting scholar at the Simon Dubnow Institute in the winter semester from 2002 to 2003. His research interests include Karaite Studies, Jewish history in Eastern Europe, Holocaust, Roma studies, various aspects of Crimean history, Khazars, Krymchaks, Crimean Tatars, Subbotniki (Sabbatarians), the history of slavery in the Ottoman Crimea and Crimean Khanate, Mangup and Chufut-Kale, Roma (Gypsy) community of the Crimea, Karaim language, literature of the Crimean Jews in Turkic languages, and more. Between 2000 and 2022 he published six academic and four popular monographs and also over a hundred articles in the English, Russian, German, Polish and Ukrainian languages. Some of his studies were translated into French, Hebrew and Turkish. In his studies Kizilov uses sources and scholarship in about twenty modern and dead languages, including Slavic, European and Oriental languages.


Awards

*2008, Kreitman Fellow at
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) ( he, אוניברסיטת בן-גוריון בנגב, ''Universitat Ben-Guriyon baNegev'') is a public research university in Beersheba, Israel. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has five campuses: the ...
(Beer Sheva, Israel). *2012 Judaica Bibliography Award from the Association of Jewish Libraries for his book ''Bibliographia Karaitica'' (2011). *2013-2014 Sosland Fellow of the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.


Works


Thesis

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Books

* * Kizilov, Mikhail (2009). ''The Karaites of Galicia: An Ethnoreligious Minority Among the Ashkenazim, the Turks, and the Slavs, 1772-1945''. Leiden / Boston: Brill, 2009 (=Studia Judaeoslavica. Vol. 1). 461 pp. * Kizilov, Mikhail (2015). ''The Sons of Scripture. The Karaites in Poland and Lithuania in the Twentieth Century''. Warsaw / Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015. * * * * Кизилов, Михаил, Никифорова, Людмила. ''Айн Рэнд''. Москва: Молодая Гвардия, 2020 (=ЖЗЛ. Т. 2013). * Kizilov, Mikhail. ''La Judée Criméenne. Histoire du Judaїsme en Crimée''. Translated from Russian by Jean-Claude Fritsch. Simferopol: Dolia, 2016.


Articles

* * Kizilov, Mikhail. “Karaite Pies and Samurai Swords: The Karaite Theme in David Shrayer-Petrov’s Life, Fiction, and Memoirs.” ''Kwartalnik Historii Żydów / Jewish History Quarterly'' 3 (2021): 857-876. * Kizilov, Mikhail. “It Was the Poles that Gave Me Most Pain”: Polish Slaves and Captives in the Crimea, 1475–1774.” In ''Slavery in the Black Sea Region, c. 900–1900. Forms of Unfreedom at the Intersection between Christianity and Islam''. Edited by Felicia Roşu. Leiden–Boston, 2022, 145-186. * Kizilov, Mikhail. “Re-reading Rand through a Russian Lens.” ''Journal of Ayn Rand Studies'' 21:1 (2021): 105-110. * Kizilov, Mikhail. “Polish Slaves and Captives in the Crimea in the Seventeenth Century.” ''Acta Orientalia Hungaricae'' 73:2 (2020): 251-265. * Kizilov, Mikhail. “Crimean Museum Collections as a Source of Information on Jewish History, Religion, Culture, and Everyday Life.” In ''Moreshet Israel: A Journal for the Study of Judaism, Zionism and Eretz Israel'' 16 (2018): 67-92. * Kizilov, Mikhail. “Reports of Dominican Missionaries as a Source of Information about the Slave Trade in the Ottoman and Tatar Crimea in the 1660s.” In ''Osmanlı Devletinde Kölelik: Ticaret–Esaret–Yaşam / Slavery in the Ottoman Empire: Trade–Captivity–Daily Life''. Edited by Z. G. Yağcı, F. Yaşa. Istanbul: Yeditepe Yayınevi, 2017, 103-116. * Kizilov, Mikhail. “Karaites and Communism: The Positive Side of the Relations of the East European Karaites with Bolshevik and Soviet Authorities.” ''Karaite Archives'' 4 (2017): 61-75. * Kizilov, Mikhail. “On Two New Translations of Marcin Broniewski’s Tartariae Descriptio (1595).” ''Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae'' 68 (1) (2015): 475-479. * Kizilov, Mikhail. “National Inventions: The Imperial Emancipation of the Karaites from Jewishness.” In ''An Empire of Others. Making Ethnographic Knowledge in Imperial Russia and the USSR''. Edited by Roland Cvetkovski and Alexis Hofmeister. Budapest–New York: Central European University Press, 2014, 369-394. * Kizilov, Mikhail. “Jan Grzegorzewski’s Karaite Materials in the Archive of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Kraków.” ''Karaite Archives'' 1 (2013): 59-83. * Kizilov, Mikhail. “Russian Treasures.” In ''Treasures of Merton College''. Edited by Steven Gunn. London: Third Millenium, 2013, 110-111. * Kizilov, Mikhail. “Between Europe and the Holy Land. East European Jews as Intermediaries between Europe and the Near East from the 16th through the 17th Centuries.” In ''La frontière méditerranéenne du XVe au XVIIe siècle''. Edited by Albrecht Fuess and Bernard Heyberger. Brepols, 2013, 301-318. * Kizilov, Mikhail. “Scholar, Zionist, and Man of Letters: Reuven Fahn (1878–1939/1944) in the Karaite Community of Halicz (Notes on the Development of Jewish Ethnography, Epigraphy and Hebrew Literature).” ''Kwartalnik Historii Żydów / Jewish History Quarterly'' 4 (2012): 470-489. * Kizilov, Mikhail. “Noord en Oost Tartarye by Nicolaes Witsen. The First Chrestomathy on the Crimean Khanate and its Sources.” In ''The Crimean Khanate between East and West (15th-18th Century)'' (=Forschungen zur osteuropäischen Geschichte 78). Edited by Denise Klein. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2012, 169-187.


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