Mordecai Sultansky

Who was Mordecai Sultansky?

Mordecai Sultansky was a Crimean Karaite hakham of the nineteenth century.

He was born at Lutsk about 1772. Sultansky was one of the most prominent scholars of the Karaite sect during the nineteenth century. He officiated as hakham of Lutsk, and later at Yevpatoria.

He wrote a Hebrew grammar entitled Petah Tikvah, and Sefer Tetib Da'at, directed against rabbinical philosophy and Hasidic mysticism, and endeavoring to explain Biblical angelology. He died in 1862.

Mordecai Sultansky was the first Karaite scholar claiming that Crimean Karaites have different from Rabbinic Jews origin, descending from the Ten Lost Tribes.