Kelin Ağlama (Don't Cry, My Bride) - Karaite Folk Song 

Are you really? How many are alive today? What is culturally different from most Jews?

@@seronymus well , not many. Guess around a thousand in Israel(?) , im secular so there is no real difference between me and "regular jews" but if u wanna be religious u pretty much an average karaite. All of the special stuff that Gaon Shapshal are non existing nowadays

@@seronymus are u a karaite/Tatar?

Your avatar looks like Outis from Limbus Company

I bet it's the audio coming only from one side of thr headphones right?

@@deucedwayneyes

They consider themselves Jews, But They recognize only the Tanakh (Written Torah/Hebrew Bible) is recognized And they reject the Talmud (oral Torah.) Karaite comes from the Hebrew קורא "Kore" "read" and קוראים "Koraim" "readers".

Krimchatken/Krymchaks are ethnically Jewish which are Muslim, while Karaites are Turkic peoples which got their Judaism back from Khazar Khaganate times.

@@deucedwayne I see, thanks for explaining it to me, also shabbat shalom

both krymachaks and karaites are decendants of khazar jews but karaites dont consider themselves jewish despite reading torah while krymchaks do

Krymchaks are another group of Jews in the Crimean Peninsula. They are practitioners of normative Rabbinical Judaism and likely descend from a variety of populations of Jews, especially from the Greek speaking world, Georgia, and Italy. There is likely to be Turkic admixture, either from Crimean Tatars or Kipchaks, but there's no solid evidence of Khazar connections, but considering the Khazars held sway over Crimea for a time, it seems likely for there to be some influence since Krymchaks have been there since before the Khazars emerged let alone before any part of Khazar society probably converted to Judaism. The Khazars spoke a significantly different Turkic language than either group as well, and there hasn't been any linguistic link found, let alone genetic evidence to point to Khazar origins. Some minute influence is probable, at least on Krymchaks, but if it's not significant enough to be discernable, then it's not a particular significant point. Karaites probably came from Egypt where there was a distinct population of Karaite Jews at the time, presumably there's been a degree of inter-marriage with both Krymchaks and Gentiles of various origins, but by and large both groups are definitively genetically Jewish.