Yaron Ben-Naeh
Biographic Data
| ID | 697049 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yaron Ben-Naeh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yaron |
| FAMILY NAME | Ben-Naeh |
| SIGNATURE | BEN-NAEH Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6737-6668 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Jews in the Realm of the Sultans: Ottoman Jewish Society in the Seventeenth Century
Yaron Ben-Naeh describes and analyses the Jewish society in the Ottoman Empire, mainly in the formative seventeenth century. For Ottoman Jewry, this era resulted in gradual acculturation to changing reality, parallel to the changing character of the Ottoman state.
The inheritance register of a Jewish financier in eighteenth-century Istanbul: Credit, Jewels, and Death Rites
Captives or crooks? Pirates, impostors, and Jewish communities in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire
In the present article, based on Ottoman and Hebrew documents, we focus on people who made up fictitious stories of captivity in order to gain a living, as well as on authorities or local Jewish communities that detected and coped with those frauds in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire. In detecting acts of fraud, a novel method adopted by Jewish communities during the period under study was printed letters that were not available to all segme…
The historiography of Ottoman Jewry
The author provides both a historical assessment and a critical audit of the historiography of Ottoman Jewry. The account commences with pioneering works of a still fragmentary nature from the late nineteenth century. It then dwells on more comprehensive works that date to the formative and second phase of this historiography. The author then compares historical scholarship on Ottoman Jewry produced in the Israeli academy with parallel efforts in…
Ottoman Jewish courtiers: An oriental type of the court Jew
The article suggests a frame of reference for the phenomenon of Ottoman Jewish courtiers, their philanthropic activity, and their motivations. Ottoman Jewish courtiers filled a similar role to that of their European peers. Besides helping people and communities, they used their political power to enhance their wealth and influence within the Jewish community, cleverly exploiting communal resources to maintain their business. The article examines …
After expulsion: 1492 And the making of Sephardic Jewry
Jonathan Ray has written a book of considerable importance. To date we have encountered studies, some of them outdated, dealing with the Jews in the Iberian Peninsula prior to the expulsion, or ind
Three German Travellers on Istanbul Jews
Sixteenth-century Istanbul, capital of the Ottoman Empire and seat of the Sultans, was demographically the most important city in the Euro-Asian world of the time and contained not only the largest urban Moslem population but also the largest Greek Orthodox and Jewish communities, this last feature surprising to Western travellers. Hence the diaries of three German-language travellers, Hans Dernschwam, Stephan Gerlach and Salomon Schweigger, who …
Jews in the Realm of the Sultans: Ottoman Jewish Society in the Seventeenth Century
Jewish society in the Ottoman Empire has not been the subject of systematic research. The seventeenth century is the main object of this study, since it was a formative era. For Ottoman Jews, the 'Ottoman century' constituted an era of gradual acculturation to changing reality, parallel to the changing character of the Ottoman state. Continuous changes and developments shaped anew the character of this Jewry, the core of what would later become k…
Blond, tall, with honey-colored eyes: Jewish ownership of slaves in the Ottoman Empire
Ordinances Concerning Luxuries and Recreation
Cet article traite des ordonnances limitant la consommation des articles de luxe de meme que les parures et les loisirs parmi les Sepharades de Jerusalem a la fin de l'epoque ottomane. Elles ont ete promulguees par les chefs de la communaute de Jerusalem pendant la premiere moitie du XIX e siecle, qui represente une periode de transition. L'auteur analyse les motivations declarees ou cachees de ces restrictions. Il s'est surtout attache aux reali…
Moshko the Jew and His Gay Friends: Same-Sex Sexual Relations in Ottoman Jewish Society
This article investigates homosexual relations and the discourse about them among Ottoman Jews. Jewish sources reveal a substantial gap between ethical and moral demands and the life of the general public. They also attest to the visibility and prevalence of sexual relations between males, despite the explicit biblical prohibition and later interdictions. In Ottoman urban society, gender and sexual preference were not naturally given but were det…
Honor and Its Meaning Among Ottoman Jews
crimes committed by one of the heirs. Members of the family claimed this heir was an evil doer who committed transgressions in public ... and this brings upon us and our entire family and to the state of ignominy when it becomes public knowledge.' They were concerned that, apart from the damage to family honor, serious acts of crime might be committed that would endanger them. In view of the circumstances, they asked for permission to lease out t…
Poverty, Paupers and Poor Relief in Ottoman Jewish Society
This article investigates poverty and the treatment of the poor amongst Ottoman Jews. Jewish society was an urban, class-oriented society, with a large marginalized sector of poor, who were barely living on a small daily income or on charity. Poverty was more than just an economic or material state, and had clear cultural and social implications. The difficult lives of the poor were the background for social strife that intensified as class diffe…
Studies in a Rabbinic Family: The de Botons
Moshko the Jew and His Gay Friends: Same-Sex Sexual Relations in Ottoman Jewish Society
This article investigates homosexual relations and the discourse about them among Ottoman Jews. Jewish sources reveal a substantial gap between ethical and moral demands and the life of the general public. They also attest to the visibility and prevalence of sexual relations between males, despite the explicit biblical prohibition and later interdictions. In Ottoman urban society, gender and sexual preference were not naturally given but were det…
Honor and Its Meaning Among Ottoman Jews
crimes committed by one of the heirs. Members of the family claimed this heir was an evil doer who committed transgressions in public ... and this brings upon us and our entire family and to the state of ignominy when it becomes public knowledge.' They were concerned that, apart from the damage to family honor, serious acts of crime might be committed that would endanger them. In view of the circumstances, they asked for permission to lease out t…
Captives or crooks? Pirates, impostors, and Jewish communities in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire
In the present article, based on Ottoman and Hebrew documents, we focus on people who made up fictitious stories of captivity in order to gain a living, as well as on authorities or local Jewish communities that detected and coped with those frauds in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire. In detecting acts of fraud, a novel method adopted by Jewish communities during the period under study was printed letters that were not available to all segme…
Studies in a Rabbinic Family: The de Botons
Poverty, Paupers and Poor Relief in Ottoman Jewish Society
This article investigates poverty and the treatment of the poor amongst Ottoman Jews. Jewish society was an urban, class-oriented society, with a large marginalized sector of poor, who were barely living on a small daily income or on charity. Poverty was more than just an economic or material state, and had clear cultural and social implications. The difficult lives of the poor were the background for social strife that intensified as class diffe…
Ordinances Concerning Luxuries and Recreation
Cet article traite des ordonnances limitant la consommation des articles de luxe de meme que les parures et les loisirs parmi les Sepharades de Jerusalem a la fin de l'epoque ottomane. Elles ont ete promulguees par les chefs de la communaute de Jerusalem pendant la premiere moitie du XIX e siecle, qui represente une periode de transition. L'auteur analyse les motivations declarees ou cachees de ces restrictions. Il s'est surtout attache aux reali…
Moshko the Jew and His Gay Friends: Same-Sex Sexual Relations in Ottoman Jewish Society
This article investigates homosexual relations and the discourse about them among Ottoman Jews. Jewish sources reveal a substantial gap between ethical and moral demands and the life of the general public. They also attest to the visibility and prevalence of sexual relations between males, despite the explicit biblical prohibition and later interdictions. In Ottoman urban society, gender and sexual preference were not naturally given but were det…
Honor and Its Meaning Among Ottoman Jews
crimes committed by one of the heirs. Members of the family claimed this heir was an evil doer who committed transgressions in public ... and this brings upon us and our entire family and to the state of ignominy when it becomes public knowledge.' They were concerned that, apart from the damage to family honor, serious acts of crime might be committed that would endanger them. In view of the circumstances, they asked for permission to lease out t…
Blond, tall, with honey-colored eyes: Jewish ownership of slaves in the Ottoman Empire
Jews in the Realm of the Sultans: Ottoman Jewish Society in the Seventeenth Century
Jewish society in the Ottoman Empire has not been the subject of systematic research. The seventeenth century is the main object of this study, since it was a formative era. For Ottoman Jews, the 'Ottoman century' constituted an era of gradual acculturation to changing reality, parallel to the changing character of the Ottoman state. Continuous changes and developments shaped anew the character of this Jewry, the core of what would later become k…
Three German Travellers on Istanbul Jews
Sixteenth-century Istanbul, capital of the Ottoman Empire and seat of the Sultans, was demographically the most important city in the Euro-Asian world of the time and contained not only the largest urban Moslem population but also the largest Greek Orthodox and Jewish communities, this last feature surprising to Western travellers. Hence the diaries of three German-language travellers, Hans Dernschwam, Stephan Gerlach and Salomon Schweigger, who …
After expulsion: 1492 And the making of Sephardic Jewry
Jonathan Ray has written a book of considerable importance. To date we have encountered studies, some of them outdated, dealing with the Jews in the Iberian Peninsula prior to the expulsion, or ind
Ottoman Jewish courtiers: An oriental type of the court Jew
The article suggests a frame of reference for the phenomenon of Ottoman Jewish courtiers, their philanthropic activity, and their motivations. Ottoman Jewish courtiers filled a similar role to that of their European peers. Besides helping people and communities, they used their political power to enhance their wealth and influence within the Jewish community, cleverly exploiting communal resources to maintain their business. The article examines …
The historiography of Ottoman Jewry
The author provides both a historical assessment and a critical audit of the historiography of Ottoman Jewry. The account commences with pioneering works of a still fragmentary nature from the late nineteenth century. It then dwells on more comprehensive works that date to the formative and second phase of this historiography. The author then compares historical scholarship on Ottoman Jewry produced in the Israeli academy with parallel efforts in…
Captives or crooks? Pirates, impostors, and Jewish communities in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire
In the present article, based on Ottoman and Hebrew documents, we focus on people who made up fictitious stories of captivity in order to gain a living, as well as on authorities or local Jewish communities that detected and coped with those frauds in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire. In detecting acts of fraud, a novel method adopted by Jewish communities during the period under study was printed letters that were not available to all segme…
Jews in the Realm of the Sultans: Ottoman Jewish Society in the Seventeenth Century
Yaron Ben-Naeh describes and analyses the Jewish society in the Ottoman Empire, mainly in the formative seventeenth century. For Ottoman Jewry, this era resulted in gradual acculturation to changing reality, parallel to the changing character of the Ottoman state.
The inheritance register of a Jewish financier in eighteenth-century Istanbul: Credit, Jewels, and Death Rites
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