The Karaite communities: harnessing the multi-lingual linguistic strategies for nationalism

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Dr. Dovilė Troskovaitė is an assistant professor at Vilnius University, Faculty of History. Her field of research focuses mainly (but is not limited to) on the history of East European Karaites, their relations with Rabbinite Jews and the dominating society through though 18th–20th centuries. She is an author of the dissertation “Formation of Polish and Lithuanian Karaite identity in the 19th–20th centuries: between separation and adaptation” (2014) and a range of articles, conference presentations on the topic. In the recent years she was a member of several international projects, implementing research on Jewish history, Identity (trans) formations, and heritage of non-Christian communities in Eastern Europe.