Krymchaks

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Biz Kırımçaklarımız - Kırımçak Kızı Anara KRYMCHAKS Krymchaks (The Krymchak people) are a small community within the Crimean population that developed on ethnic-religious basis in the medieval period of the history of the Crimean peninsula. The ethnonym (self-name) Kyrmchak was fixed by the official documents of the Russian Empire in the mid-nineteenth century. Before the establishment of the Soviet power in the Crimean territory, the Krymchaks confessed Orthodox Judaism according to specific Krymchak ritual of praying which was finally shaped in the late fifteenth - early sixteenth century. The Kyrmchaks used their own spoken language of the same name (the Kyrmchaks themselves called it Chagatay) up to the mid-twentieth century. This language belongs to the first group of Turkic languages. Nowadays the most Krymchaks speak Russian. When the Russian colonization of the Crimea started, the Krymchaks lived in a few places in the peninsula. Their most important centre was Karasubazar (present Belogorsk), to which the Kyrmchak community moved from Solkhat (present Staryy Krym) and Caffa (present Feodosiya) in the late fifteenth - early sixteenth century. In Karasubazar the Krymchaks were united by a community, cemaat, and lived on the compact outskirts -- guidebook Krym (published in the 1914) called that part of the city "the Krymchak side". Their most important occupations were craft, trade, and farming with gardening and viticulture. One can only guess the number of the Krymchaks by 1783 due to baron Igelstorm´s account indicates the Krymchaks and Karaims as Jews because they confessed Judaism; according to that account, in both communities there were 1,407 persons of male sex. According to the population censuses the number of the Krymchaks was; in 1897 -- 4.500 persons; in 1913 -- ca. 7,000 persons; in 1926 -- 6,400 persons; in 1959 -- ca. 2,000 persons; in 1970 -- 1,900 persons; in 1979 -- 1,800 persons; in 1989 -- 1,448 persons. In 1989 there were 604 Krymchaks living on the territory of the Crimea; in 2002 there were only 281. After taking out Russian citizenship, the Krymchaks suffered discriminative policy as those who confessed Judaism. As a result of that, members of the Krymchak community became impoverished and their culture become debased. The Krymchaks were practically excluded from the Political and cultural life of Russia throughout the nineteenth and the first decades of the twentieth century. In the years of the Second World War the Nazis organized genocide of the Krymchaks in the Crimea: they killed more than 80% of the whole ethnos. Occupation of Crimea by German fascists has lead to the genocide of Krymchaks as adherents of orthodox Judaism. From the end of Second World War to the late 1980s official power´s attitude towards the Krymchaks was dictated by Stalin´s national policy (outlined yet in the late 1930s). From the late 1940s onwards the USSR authorities stopped to give the most Krymchaks passports indicating their nation. This policy undoubtedly resulted in the ethnic consolidation of the Krymchaks and contributed to the appearance of the leaders who can raise and solve questions related to preservation of the national specificity of their people. Their numbers' estimates range from 1 500 to 2 700 with the most often accepted count of 1 500 of which about 200 live in Crimea (Ukraine), 160 in Russia, 1 000 in Israel and the rest in Uzbekistan, Georgia, United States, Turkey, Germany and Poland. © Town Under Music Artist: Buluş Basmalı / Percussion Anara / Singer Roza Ashkenazı / Akkordeon Nuri Özisciler / Producer Fon: + + 49 (0) 911 923 478 42 Mobil: + 49 (0) 157 3444 28 32 Email: info@town-under.com www.townundermusic.com www.youtube.com/townundermusic www.Facebook.com/TownUnderMusic