or Halych dialect spoken in Lutsk (until World War II), and Halych, and the Crimean dialect. The last forms the Eastern group, while Trakai and Halych Karaim belong to the Western group. Currently only small minority of Karaim can speak the Karaim language (72 Crimean dialect speakers, 118 Trakai dialect speakers, and about 20 Halych dialect speakers). Cuisine The most famous Crimean Karaite food is Kybyn ( pl. , Karaim: kybyn pl. kybynlar, ). Kybynlar are half moon shaped pies of leavened dough with a stuffing of chopped beef or mutton, baked in dutch oven or baking sheet. Other meals common for Crimean Karaites and Tatars are Chiburekki, Pelmeni, Shishlik (These are most often made from mutton). Ceremony dishes, cooked for religious holidays and weddings are: Tymbyl is Pesach round cakes flat of unleavened dough, knead with cream and butter or butter and eggs, reflected in the modern name of this festival (Tymbyl Chydžy), Qatlama is Shavuot (Aftalar Chydžy) cottage cheese pie, which seven layers symbolizing seven weeks after Pesach, four layers of yeast dough, three of pot cheese, Wedding pies are Kiyovliuk (on the part of the groom) and Kelin'lik (on the part of the bride). See also Benjamin Aga Karaite Jews Krymchaks Samaritans Turkish Jews Khazars Kenesa Crimean Tatars References Bibliography Ben-Tzvi, Yitzhak. The Exiled and the Redeemed. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1957. Blady, Ken. Jewish Communities in Exotic Places. Northvale, N.J.: Jason Aronson Inc., 2000. pp. 115–130. Brook, Kevin Alan. The Jews of Khazaria. 2nd ed. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, 2006. Friedman, Philip. "The Karaites under Nazi Rule". On the Tracks of Tyranny. London, 1960. Green, W.P. "Nazi Racial Policy Towards the Karaites", Soviet Jewish Affairs 8,2 (1978) pp. 36–44 Karaite Judaism: Introduction to Karaite Studies. Edited by M. Polliack. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2004, 657–708. Kizilov, Mikhail. Karaites Through the Travelers' Eyes: Ethnic History, Traditional Culture and Everyday Life of the Crimean Karaites According to the Descriptions of the Travelers. Qirqisani Center, 2003. Kizilov, Mikhail. "Faithful Unto Death: Language, Tradition, and the Disappearance of the East European Karaite Communities," East European Jewish Affairs 36:1 (2006): 73–93. Krymskiye karaimy: istoricheskaya territoriya: etnokul'tura. Edited by V.S. Kropotov, V.Yu. Ormeli, A. Yu. Polkanova. Simferpol': Dolya, 200 Kizilov, Mikhail. Sons of Scripture: The Karaites in Poland and Lithuania in the Twentieth Century. De Gruyter, 2015. Miller, Philip. Karaite Separatism in 19th Century Russia. HUC Press, 1993. Semi, Emanuela T. "The