This previously unpublished chronicle contains valuable information on the Crimean Khanate and its relations with the Ottoman state between 1680-1730, as well as on other events in this important period. It was originally written by a local Jewish rabbi in Semi-Biblical Hebrew and was translated from the extant manuscripts.
This previously unpublished chronicle contains valuable information on the Crimean Khanate and its relations with the Ottoman state between 1680-1730, as well as on other events in this important period. It was originally written by a local Jewish rabbi in Semi-Biblical Hebrew and was translated from the extant manuscripts.
Dan Shapira is Full Professor at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at Bar-Ilan University. An interdisciplinary historian and philologist, he is presently working on medieval and early modern Jewish minority communities, the Crimea, and the Khazars. Yaron Ben-Naeh is Full Professor, Bernard Cherrick Chair in Jewish History in the Department of History of the Jewish People and Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University, and a researcher of Ottoman Jewry. He is chair of Misgav Yerushalayim¿The Center for the Research of Sephardi Heritage. Aviezer Tutian, Ph.d student at Bar-Ilan University.
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Table of Contents Introduction A Short Overview of the Chapters The Translation of the Chronicle Bibliography
