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Research interests
Dan Shapira is Professr in the Dept. of Middle Eastern Studies, Bar-Ilan University and Feldman Professor of the History and Culture of Eastern European Jewry, Faculty of Jewish Studies.
Language Skills: fluent in Hebrew, English, Russian, German, Persian, Turkish, Azeri, Crimean-Tatar, Arabic (including Palestinian, Egyptian and Iraqi dialects), Urdu & Hindi, Yiddish, Ukrainian, Maltese.
Reading only: all the Semitic languages, all the Slavic Languages, all the Romance Languages, all the Germanic Languages, all the Iranian Languages, all the Aryan-Indian languages, all the Turkic languages, Classical Mongolian, Classical Armenian, Georgian, Greek, Tang-Period Chinese, Hungarian, Elamite, some Bahasa Indonesia / Malay, some Swahili, some Japanese.
- Research interests
- The Ottoman Empire
- Minorities in the Ottoman Empire
- Kurds
- the former Soviet Central Asian Republics
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Oct 1996 → Jun 2000
Award Date: 30 Jun 2000
Master, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Oct 1991 → Jun 1993
Award Date: 30 Jun 1993
Bachelor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Oct 1987 → Jun 1991
Award Date: 30 Jun 1991
Research
- תחומי מחקר
- האימפריה העת'מאנית
- איראן
- מיעוטים במזה"ת
- כורדים
- ארמנים
- כוזרים
- מרכז אסיה
- עמים תורכיים
- Fields of Interest
- The Ottoman Empire
- Minorities in the Ottoman Empire
- Kurds
- the former Soviet Central Asian Republics
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Research output
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Fragments of a Manual of the Turkic/Turkish Language Written in Middle Arabic from the Second Firkowicz Collection
Shapira, D., 2024, Etudes sur le Judaisme Medieval. Frenkel, M. & Lieberman, P. I. (eds.). Brill Academic Publishers, p. 269-276 8 p. (Etudes sur le Judaisme Medieval; vol. 97).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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“Fire from Hell,” or “You are the Salt of the Earth.” On the Interpretation of Matthew 5:13
Shapira, D., 2024, In: Verbum Vitae. 42, 2, p. 493-502 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A Macaronic Hebrew-Greek-Turkish Poem from the First Printed Karaite Prayerbook, Venice 1528
Shapira, D. & Vinogradov, A., 2023, In: Journal of Jewish Languages. 11, 1, p. 64-81 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Fragment of an Anti-Christian Polemic with a Syriac Gospel Quotation
Shapira, D., 2023, In: Scrinium. 19, 1, p. 375-378 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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'אנחנו הקירימים': איגרת תחינה של הרבניים בקראסוב אל קראי יוופטוריה: [מתוך המדור: תעודה]
Translated title of the contribution :'We are the Kirimim': A Petition by the Rabbinites of Karasuv to the Karaites of Eupatoria The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Bar-Ilan University
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review