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2006

Karaite House

Trakai (old capital), near Vilnius
Old Hebraic sect who were brought as bodyguards
from Crimea by a medieval Lithuanian ruler.
Their houses are on stilts and brightly coloured.
Their tombstones use Hebrew letters.
They speak Polish and/or Russian as well as Lithuanian.
Their bible is the Pentateuch but they
do not recognise the Talmud.


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