Yuval Ben-Bassat
Biographic Data
| ID | 3978222 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yuval Ben-Bassat |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yuval |
| FAMILY NAME | Ben-Bassat |
| SIGNATURE | BEN-BASSAT Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Haifa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A population register of a Jewish colony in late Ottoman Palestine
This article presents a rare mukhtar (head of community) book written in Hebrew in the spring of 1917, preserved today in the Israel State Archives in Jerusalem. It was written most probably by the head or the managing committee of the colony of Rishon le-Zion near Jaffa in central Ottoman Palestine, anticipating possible evacuation orders by the Ottoman authorities. The circumstances and context prompting the writing of this register, its nature…
Suzanne Schneider. Mandatory Separation: Religion, Education, and Mass Politics in Palestine
The literature on Mandatory Palestine has grown rapidly in recent years and more and more dissertations and research projects are being written on this period, unlike the case of Ottoman Palestine, where new literature is few and far between. The availability of sources of various types on this period, especially British colonial correspondence, and the assumption that to a great extent the roots of the still unresolved problems between Israel, t…
Applying Digital Methods to the Study of a Late Ottoman City: A Social and Spatial Analysis of Political Partisanship in Gaza
This article takes the understudied Ottoman city of Gaza in southern Palestine at the end of the nineteenth century as a case study to illustrate the new possibilities available today to researchers of the Middle East by combining the study of historical sources with GIS and other digital technologies. It first surveys the main sources available for the study of this city, some of which have only become available to researchers in recent years. I…
A ssaf L ikhovski . Tax Law and Social Norms in Mandatory Palestine and Israel
Assaf Likhovski has published extensively on the legal system in Mandatory Palestine. His current book, Tax Law and Social Norms in Mandatory Palestine and Israel, focuses on the British Mandate and the early decades of Israel, with brief references to the Ottoman period, which greatly influenced the tax system during the Mandate period, and continues up to 1985, when Israel took drastic measures to combat the economic crises and the soaring infl…
Urban Factionalism in Late Ottoman Gaza, c. 1875-1914: Local Politics and Spatial Divisions
During the late Ottoman period the city of Gaza was caught up in internal political strife. The city’s elite families tended to operate within rival factions while trying to draw Istanbul into its internal conflicts. In this context, they formed complex relationships with the elite of Jerusalem that dominated Palestine’s politics, as well as with peasants and Bedouins in Gaza’s hinterland. The article presents the first systematic account of fact…
The Ottoman institution of petitioning when the sultan no longer reigned: A view from post-1908 Ottoman Palestine
The Young Turk Revolution of 1908 helped transform the time-honored Ottoman petitioning system. The reinstatement of parliamentary life, the reintroduction of the suspended constitution of 1876, and the lifting of the ban on the press and political action all generated profound political and social changes. Subjects’ petitions reflected these changes vividly and in often surprising detail. As the sultan became a figurehead with little actual powe…
Jerusalem: From the Ottomans to the British
The collision of Empires as seen from Istanbul: The border of British-controlled Egypt and Ottoman Palestine as reflected in Ottoman maps
Bedouin Petitions from Late Ottoman Palestine: Evaluating the Effects of Sedentarization
This article examines petitions sent to Istanbul at the end of the nineteenth century by Bedouin groups from the kaza s (subdistricts) of Jaffa and Gaza, on Palestine’s central and southern coast. The Bedouins’ use of the petition process shows that many of them, especially those who had gone through a process of sedentarization, played according to the rules prevailing among the urban and rural populations in their vicinity. Their petitions also…
Women's Visibility in Petitions From Greater Syria During the Late Ottoman Period
This article focuses on petitions by Ottoman women from Greater Syria during the late Ottoman era. After offering a general overview of women's petitions in the Ottoman Empire, it explores changes in women's petitions between 1865 and 1919 through several case studies. The article then discusses women's “double-voiced” petitions following the empire's defeat in World War I, particularly those submitted to the King-Crane Commission. The concept of…
From Şikayet to Political Discourse and ‘Public Opinion: Petitioning Practices to the King-Crane Commission
The King-Crane Commission, named after its two chairs, Henry Churchill King (1858-1934) and Charles R. Crane (1858-1939), was an American investigative commission set up to explore possible political arrangements for the former Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of World War I and the collapse of the Empire. While most research has dealt with the issue of whether the petitions submitted to the King-Crane Commission were a genuine manifestation of ‘p…
Petitioning the Sultan: Protests and Justice in Late Ottoman Palestine 1865-1908
The practice of petitioning the Ottoman Sultan was a well-known institution which existed in one form or another throughout Ottoman history and enabled Ottoman subjects, far from the capital of Istanbul, to convey their grievances directly to the supreme ruler. Here, Yuval Ben-Bassat examines the petitions, including many previously unpublished ones, sent during the last decades of the Empire to the Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II. The petitions ena…
Regional cooperation among the rural population of Palestine's southern coast as reflected in joint petitions to İstanbul at the end of the nineteenth century
The issue of regional connections and cooperation among the rural population in different parts of Palestine at the end of the nineteenth century has thus far not received adequate attention. This article presents case-studies of several villages in the sub-district of Gaza, which submitted joint petitions about common concerns to the Grand Vizier in İstanbul. It examines the significance of these petitions and discusses their characteristics, un…
Late Ottoman Palestine: The Period of Young Turk Rule
The decisive consequences of the Young Turk Revolution of 1908 had ramifications over the entire Ottoman Empire - and the Ottoman territory of was no exception. Late Ottoman Palestine examines the impact of Young Turk policies and reforms on local societies and administration, using as a prism through which to explore the impact of the Revolution in the provincial arena far from the administrative and political centre of the capital. It thus shed…
In Search of Justice
Sont presentees ici des petitions envoyees par les habitants de la Palestine au Grand Vizir a partir des annees 1870. Profitant des nouveaux moyens de communication desormais accessibles au public, les requerants — citadins, villageois, Bedouins ― adresserent leurs requetes au siege du gouvernement central et exigerent que justice soit rendue. Cette recherche a pour objet l'examen de l'identite des requerants, des methodes d'acheminement, des the…
The collision of Empires as seen from Istanbul: The border of British-controlled Egypt and Ottoman Palestine as reflected in Ottoman maps
Women's Visibility in Petitions From Greater Syria During the Late Ottoman Period
This article focuses on petitions by Ottoman women from Greater Syria during the late Ottoman era. After offering a general overview of women's petitions in the Ottoman Empire, it explores changes in women's petitions between 1865 and 1919 through several case studies. The article then discusses women's “double-voiced” petitions following the empire's defeat in World War I, particularly those submitted to the King-Crane Commission. The concept of…
Bedouin Petitions from Late Ottoman Palestine: Evaluating the Effects of Sedentarization
This article examines petitions sent to Istanbul at the end of the nineteenth century by Bedouin groups from the kaza s (subdistricts) of Jaffa and Gaza, on Palestine’s central and southern coast. The Bedouins’ use of the petition process shows that many of them, especially those who had gone through a process of sedentarization, played according to the rules prevailing among the urban and rural populations in their vicinity. Their petitions also…
The Ottoman institution of petitioning when the sultan no longer reigned: A view from post-1908 Ottoman Palestine
The Young Turk Revolution of 1908 helped transform the time-honored Ottoman petitioning system. The reinstatement of parliamentary life, the reintroduction of the suspended constitution of 1876, and the lifting of the ban on the press and political action all generated profound political and social changes. Subjects’ petitions reflected these changes vividly and in often surprising detail. As the sultan became a figurehead with little actual powe…
Applying Digital Methods to the Study of a Late Ottoman City: A Social and Spatial Analysis of Political Partisanship in Gaza
This article takes the understudied Ottoman city of Gaza in southern Palestine at the end of the nineteenth century as a case study to illustrate the new possibilities available today to researchers of the Middle East by combining the study of historical sources with GIS and other digital technologies. It first surveys the main sources available for the study of this city, some of which have only become available to researchers in recent years. I…
Urban Factionalism in Late Ottoman Gaza, c. 1875-1914: Local Politics and Spatial Divisions
During the late Ottoman period the city of Gaza was caught up in internal political strife. The city’s elite families tended to operate within rival factions while trying to draw Istanbul into its internal conflicts. In this context, they formed complex relationships with the elite of Jerusalem that dominated Palestine’s politics, as well as with peasants and Bedouins in Gaza’s hinterland. The article presents the first systematic account of fact…
Regional cooperation among the rural population of Palestine's southern coast as reflected in joint petitions to İstanbul at the end of the nineteenth century
The issue of regional connections and cooperation among the rural population in different parts of Palestine at the end of the nineteenth century has thus far not received adequate attention. This article presents case-studies of several villages in the sub-district of Gaza, which submitted joint petitions about common concerns to the Grand Vizier in İstanbul. It examines the significance of these petitions and discusses their characteristics, un…
In Search of Justice
Sont presentees ici des petitions envoyees par les habitants de la Palestine au Grand Vizir a partir des annees 1870. Profitant des nouveaux moyens de communication desormais accessibles au public, les requerants — citadins, villageois, Bedouins ― adresserent leurs requetes au siege du gouvernement central et exigerent que justice soit rendue. Cette recherche a pour objet l'examen de l'identite des requerants, des methodes d'acheminement, des the…
Late Ottoman Palestine: The Period of Young Turk Rule
The decisive consequences of the Young Turk Revolution of 1908 had ramifications over the entire Ottoman Empire - and the Ottoman territory of was no exception. Late Ottoman Palestine examines the impact of Young Turk policies and reforms on local societies and administration, using as a prism through which to explore the impact of the Revolution in the provincial arena far from the administrative and political centre of the capital. It thus shed…
Regional cooperation among the rural population of Palestine's southern coast as reflected in joint petitions to İstanbul at the end of the nineteenth century
The issue of regional connections and cooperation among the rural population in different parts of Palestine at the end of the nineteenth century has thus far not received adequate attention. This article presents case-studies of several villages in the sub-district of Gaza, which submitted joint petitions about common concerns to the Grand Vizier in İstanbul. It examines the significance of these petitions and discusses their characteristics, un…
Petitioning the Sultan: Protests and Justice in Late Ottoman Palestine 1865-1908
The practice of petitioning the Ottoman Sultan was a well-known institution which existed in one form or another throughout Ottoman history and enabled Ottoman subjects, far from the capital of Istanbul, to convey their grievances directly to the supreme ruler. Here, Yuval Ben-Bassat examines the petitions, including many previously unpublished ones, sent during the last decades of the Empire to the Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II. The petitions ena…
From Şikayet to Political Discourse and ‘Public Opinion: Petitioning Practices to the King-Crane Commission
The King-Crane Commission, named after its two chairs, Henry Churchill King (1858-1934) and Charles R. Crane (1858-1939), was an American investigative commission set up to explore possible political arrangements for the former Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of World War I and the collapse of the Empire. While most research has dealt with the issue of whether the petitions submitted to the King-Crane Commission were a genuine manifestation of ‘p…
The collision of Empires as seen from Istanbul: The border of British-controlled Egypt and Ottoman Palestine as reflected in Ottoman maps
Bedouin Petitions from Late Ottoman Palestine: Evaluating the Effects of Sedentarization
This article examines petitions sent to Istanbul at the end of the nineteenth century by Bedouin groups from the kaza s (subdistricts) of Jaffa and Gaza, on Palestine’s central and southern coast. The Bedouins’ use of the petition process shows that many of them, especially those who had gone through a process of sedentarization, played according to the rules prevailing among the urban and rural populations in their vicinity. Their petitions also…
Women's Visibility in Petitions From Greater Syria During the Late Ottoman Period
This article focuses on petitions by Ottoman women from Greater Syria during the late Ottoman era. After offering a general overview of women's petitions in the Ottoman Empire, it explores changes in women's petitions between 1865 and 1919 through several case studies. The article then discusses women's “double-voiced” petitions following the empire's defeat in World War I, particularly those submitted to the King-Crane Commission. The concept of…
Jerusalem: From the Ottomans to the British
The Ottoman institution of petitioning when the sultan no longer reigned: A view from post-1908 Ottoman Palestine
The Young Turk Revolution of 1908 helped transform the time-honored Ottoman petitioning system. The reinstatement of parliamentary life, the reintroduction of the suspended constitution of 1876, and the lifting of the ban on the press and political action all generated profound political and social changes. Subjects’ petitions reflected these changes vividly and in often surprising detail. As the sultan became a figurehead with little actual powe…
A ssaf L ikhovski . Tax Law and Social Norms in Mandatory Palestine and Israel
Assaf Likhovski has published extensively on the legal system in Mandatory Palestine. His current book, Tax Law and Social Norms in Mandatory Palestine and Israel, focuses on the British Mandate and the early decades of Israel, with brief references to the Ottoman period, which greatly influenced the tax system during the Mandate period, and continues up to 1985, when Israel took drastic measures to combat the economic crises and the soaring infl…
Urban Factionalism in Late Ottoman Gaza, c. 1875-1914: Local Politics and Spatial Divisions
During the late Ottoman period the city of Gaza was caught up in internal political strife. The city’s elite families tended to operate within rival factions while trying to draw Istanbul into its internal conflicts. In this context, they formed complex relationships with the elite of Jerusalem that dominated Palestine’s politics, as well as with peasants and Bedouins in Gaza’s hinterland. The article presents the first systematic account of fact…
Suzanne Schneider. Mandatory Separation: Religion, Education, and Mass Politics in Palestine
The literature on Mandatory Palestine has grown rapidly in recent years and more and more dissertations and research projects are being written on this period, unlike the case of Ottoman Palestine, where new literature is few and far between. The availability of sources of various types on this period, especially British colonial correspondence, and the assumption that to a great extent the roots of the still unresolved problems between Israel, t…
Applying Digital Methods to the Study of a Late Ottoman City: A Social and Spatial Analysis of Political Partisanship in Gaza
This article takes the understudied Ottoman city of Gaza in southern Palestine at the end of the nineteenth century as a case study to illustrate the new possibilities available today to researchers of the Middle East by combining the study of historical sources with GIS and other digital technologies. It first surveys the main sources available for the study of this city, some of which have only become available to researchers in recent years. I…
A population register of a Jewish colony in late Ottoman Palestine
This article presents a rare mukhtar (head of community) book written in Hebrew in the spring of 1917, preserved today in the Israel State Archives in Jerusalem. It was written most probably by the head or the managing committee of the colony of Rishon le-Zion near Jaffa in central Ottoman Palestine, anticipating possible evacuation orders by the Ottoman authorities. The circumstances and context prompting the writing of this register, its nature…
History (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Ancient history (12 works) · Palestine (11 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Islamic Studies and History (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Archaeology (5 works)