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The Kyivan Letter: What the Document Reports and What Is Inferred
A C2 Ukrainian reading about the 10th-century Kyivan Letter from the Cairo Genizah: the story of Jacob ben Hanukkah, Golb and Pritsak's 1982 interpretation and the doubts recorded in the Cambridge catalogue.
Separating a source's report from a researcher's conclusion in Ukrainian: «Як ідеться в документі», «На їхню думку», «За Голбом і Пріцаком», «судячи з усього», «як видається», the particle «нібито» and the hedge «лише як імовірне».
A fictional source-studies teacher examines the Kyivan Letter (Cambridge University Library, T-S 12.122): what it reports about Jacob ben Hanukkah, how Golb and Pritsak interpreted it in 1982 and why the catalogue treats those conclusions as contested.
