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

by David Lekhno (Author), Yaron Ben-Naeh (Author), Dan Shapira (Author)

This previously unpublished chronicle contains valuable information on the Crimean Khanate and its relations with the Ottoman state between 1680-1730, as well as on other events in this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

Author Biography

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.