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An Ottoman Hebrew Chronicle from the Crimea (1683-1730). Written by Krymchak Rabbi David Lekhno
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The fifty years between 1680-1730 were one of the most fascinating in the history of Europe and in Ottoman history. A period of coalitions and wars, climate changes, and natural disasters took place. This previously unpublished chronicle contains valuable information in various fields. It was written in Semi-Biblical Hebrew by a Jewish rabbi residing in the Crimean Peninsula, and includes insights on the political upheavals in the Crimean Khanate and the Ottoman capital; the wars between the Ottomans, Habsburgs, Venetians, Circassians, Sefevids, and the Russians, which he vividly describes; Persia and the Caucasus; the fate of Jewish communities; epidemics and weather; and weapons and customs. The book, a historical mine that reads like a sweeping thriller, is now available in English for the first time.
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 for the Research of Sephardi Heritage., Dan Shapira is an interdisciplinary historian and philologist. He is working presently on medieval and early modern Jewish minority communities, the Crimea, and the Khazars., Aviezer Tutian, Ph.d student at Bar-Ilan University.
- ISBN-13
- 9781644696170
- Publisher
- Academic Studies Press
- Imprint
- Academic Studies Press
- Publication date
- 17 August 2021
- Format
- Hardback
- Pages
- 272
- Dimensions
- 234 x 156 mm
- Language
- English
