Debar Śepatayim

<div><div><p>The fifty years between 1680-1730 were one of the most fascinating in the history of Europe and in Ottoman history. A period of coalitions and wars climate changes and natural disasters took place. This previously unpublished chronicle contains valuable information in various fields. It was written in Semi-Biblical Hebrew by a Jewish rabbi residing in the Crimean Peninsula and includes insights on the political upheavals in the Crimean Khanate and the Ottoman capital; the wars between the Ottomans Habsburgs Venetians Circassians Sefevids and the Russians which he vividly describes; Persia and the Caucasus; the fate of Jewish communities; epidemics and weather; and weapons and customs. The book a historical mine that reads like a sweeping thriller is now available in English for the first time.</p></div></div>