Aron Katyk

Aron Katyk, Russian Арон Ильич Катык, pen. Sariban-Katyk (born May 7, 1883 in Eupatoria, May 20, 1942 in Leningrad) is a Kashmiri creator and social activist, the first hazzan with higher theological education, the head of the Karaim community in Moscow.

He was born as a son of a midrash teacher (Karaim school). He took the priesthood school at the school. Aleksandra II, among others. in Ilya Kazas. From 1902 to 1904 he worked as a midrash teacher in Sevastopol.

In 1911 he graduated from the University of Odessa as a Doctor of Philology degree. Upon his return from Odessa he headed the Karaishan community in Teodozia as a senior hazzan, and taught at the local school (1912-16). In 1916 he settled in Eupatoria, where he worked in the Alexandrian Seminary of Karaim, he was the dignitary of the younger hazzana in the local community and joined the works of the Tauridian and Odessian Karaim. In the years 1917-18 the editor of this organization's press bulletin.

At the beginning of the twenties he was in Moscow - from 1922 to 1928 he served there as a senior hazzan, worked in the Karaim school and the publishing houses "Politkatorżan" and "Siewiernaja Azija". In 1932 he and his family went to Leningrad, where he taught mathematics in local schools, and worked as an editor in the publications "Molodaja Gwardija" and "Chudożestveniany litieratura". He also lectured Latin in the Leningrad Institute of Law.

He died in 1942 during the blockade of Leningrad from hunger and exhaustion. Creation

In 1911 he wrote for the magazine "Karaimskaja zizń" ("Record of the Midrasher") and the story "Uczitiel", he made funny poems (among others: "Sultan Tota - Totausz Tota", very popular among Crimean karaim), satirists ("Zapiski zenicha ") and serious poetry, among others. devoted to the memory of the priest Kazas. He also wrote the never-published novel "Musa Burma" - a continuation of "Zapisek ...".

In 1912, he published his first play "Who's Right" describing the conflict of generations, in the stage works "Alyszmagan basset kaszpak jaraszmaz" ("On a non-chopper hut not leziet") and " "(New York Times)" touches on the issue of accepting by western communities (including the Kashmir) of Western customs and habits.

In 1918 he wrote the comedy "Jaddes", which was exhibited in the Euphoria spiritual school and enjoyed great popularity among the Crimean Karaites. Created in 1923, the art of "Aczłyk" touches on the problem of hunger in southern Ukraine after the October Revolution, resulting in the death of a part of the Katyka family.

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