Debar Śepatayim - An Ottoman Hebrew Chronicle from the Crimea (1683-1730). Written by Krymchak Rabbi David Lekhno

This previously unpublished chronicle contains valuable information on the Crimean Khanate and its relations with the Ottoman state between 1680-1730, as well as on other events in this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.

List of contents

Table of Contents Introduction
A Short Overview of the Chapters
The Translation of the Chronicle
Bibliography

About the author

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.

Summary

This previously unpublished chronicle contains valuable information on the period between 1680 and 1730. It was written by a Jewish rabbi in the Crimean Peninsula, and includes insights on the political upheavals in the Crimean Khanate and the Ottoman capital; the wars between the Ottomans and the Russians; and Persia and the Caucasus.

Product details

• Authors: Yaron Ben-Naeh, BEN-NAEH SHAPIRA, David Lekhno, Rabbi David Lekhno, Dan Shapira, Aviezer Tutian
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9781644696170
• ISBN: 978-1-64469-617-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Illustrations: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Ukraine, Russia, Ottoman Empire, Social and cultural history, Judaism: life and practice