Research Fields

• social history
• cultural history
• historic photography
• ladino literature
• Mizrahi studies

About

Ben-Naeh is a historian of the Jews in the Ottoman Empire (16th century-early 20th century). His main interests include social history and cultural history. He is also interested in Palestine under the Ottomans.

 

Selected Publications

Yaron Ben-Naeh, Jews in the Realm of the Sultans: Ottoman Jewry in the Seventeenth Century, Mohr-Siebeck Press: Tübingen 2008

Nuh Arslantaş & Yaron Ben-Naeh, Ibranice Anonim bir kronik, Türk Tarih Kurumu: Ankara 2013

Yaron Ben-Naeh (author and ed.), Jewish Communities in the East in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Turkey, Ben Zvi Institute and Israel's Ministry of Education, Jerusalem 2010

Yaron Ben-Naeh, Sefer Korot Mishpaha: An Autobiography of a Sephardi of the Old Yishuv in Jerusalem: A Soldier, a Rabbinic Scholar and an Author during a Change of an Era, Yad Yizhak Ben-Zvi & Old Yishuv Court Museum: Jerusalem 2015

Yaron Ben-Naeh, Dan Shapira, & Aviezer Tutian, Debar Sepatayim: An Ottoman Hebrew Chronicle from the Crimea (1683-1730) Written by the Krymchak Rabbi David Lekhno, Academic Press Printing: Boston, MA; 2021

 

Selected Awards

(2007) President Yitzhak Ben Zvi Prize for my book: Jews in the Realm of the Sultans (Hebrew version)

(2011) Marc Wiznitzer Prize for my book: Jews in the Realm of the Sultans (English)

 

Teaching

Sephardi Jews as Mirrored in Photography and Painting (1850-1950)

Sabbateanism: Myth and Reality

Peddlers and Prostitutes: Sephardi Lives in Yehudah Burla's Stories

Safed Jews in the Sixteenth Century

Family Life among Ottoman Jews 

Ottoman Jerusalem and is Jewish Community (Hebrew Souces/Arabic Sources)

Communal regulations - From Baghdad to Meknes

Authors, Readers and Printers

Ottoman-Jewish Wills as a Historical Source

Holy Men and Women (hagiographic stories)

Sephardi Autobiographies

Sephardi Communities in the Light of Communal Regulations

Palestine’s Jews during the Ottoman Period

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Bibliographical Tours: Hebrew Book Introductions

Jerusalem’s Sephardim 1800-1948

Jewish Questions: Guided Reading in Rabbinic Responsa from the Ottoman Empire

Hida’s Diary ‘Ma’agal Tov ha-Shalem’

In the Footsteps of the Emissaries (Shadarim)