In this article the author discusses the correspondence between Sergiusz Rudkowski (1873–1944), a Karaim-born poet and writer, and Professor Tadeusz Kowalski (1889–1948), the founder of modern Polish Oriental Studies. The letters were written in the interwar period (between 1926 and 1939) and pertain mostly to linguistic matters and scholarly plans. Unfortunately, only the letters sent by Rudkowski to Kowalski have survived: currently they are stored in the Archive of Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences in Kraków. Kowalski’s replies were most likely destroyed during the Second World War. The correspondence consists of six letters, two of which were written in South-Western Karaim and four in Polish. Additionally, Rudkowski attached to one of the Polish letters a speech he wrote in Karaim, which he asked Kowalski to translate into Polish. Due to this fact, the text of the speech and Kowalski’s Polish translation also form part of this small collection. In this study the content of all these materials is presented along with a detailed commentary. The importance of these sources written in Karaim lies in the fact that the linguistic material available for studying Lutsk Karaim (a language that is already extinct), such as that used in interpersonal communication, is limited. Special attention is paid to Karaim colloquial constructions, including Slavonic structural influences. Finally, the facsimilia of the letters are also presented to the reader.
keywords in English:
Karaims in Lutsk, Karaim language, South-Western Karaim, Sergiusz Rudkowski, Tadeusz Kowalski, Polish Oriental Studies in the interwar period
number of pulisher's sheets:
1,2
departmental parameterization:
5
affiliation:
Wydział Filologiczny : Instytut Językoznawstwa, Przekładoznawstwa i Hungarystyki
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