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Seraya Shapshal (1873-1961) was a turkologist and a religious leader of the haham Karaim community. He came from Crimea and studied in Saint Petersburg (Russia) and Istanbul. He also spent some time in Iran and in 1928 he came to Vilnius (Wilno) in Poland. From 1929 to 1939 he worked with the Polish Oriental Society. He corresponded with the Cracow turkologist professor Tadeusz Kowalski on scientific...
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