Karaites settled in medieval Lithuania -particularly in Trakai (Troki), where they established a community and began a chronicle of Karaites in the Baltic Region of Eastern Europe. The history of Karaites has already been analysed by many Jewish, Polish, Lithuanian, Russian, American, and other scholars who focused on finding historical truth by establishing some facts. 1 This article examines how the history of this settlement has been passed down through written documents and oral tradition.

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... t serves as an important reminder of the process of Karaite identity formation and draws attention to the Hebrew heritage. It addresses records from the fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries and delineates the way in which interpretations of this history have shifted over time, both among the Karaites themselves and in the work of historians who have worked with this subject. As there are some discrepancies in both the source materials and the publications -the result of inaccurate dates, locations, events, and perspectives -I have examined both Karaite and Jewish works, including those of independent researchers. A short Hebrew text regarding the settlement of Karaites in Lithuania from Mordecai Sultansky's Zecher Tzadiqim (