Rozen Minna, History of the Jewish People



Short Curriculum Vitae (highlights):


Name:Minna Rozen
Academic Degree: Ph.D.

Education:
University of Tel-Aviv, History of the Jewish People, Ph.D. 1977
Subject of Thesis: The Jewish Community in Jerusalem From the End of the Sixteenth Century to the End of the Seventeenth Century

Academic and Professional Experience:
1.2.96 - University of Tel-Aviv, Israel, History of the Jewish People, Full professor.

University Positions:
-1989 Head of the Documentation Project of Balkan and Turkish Jewry
-1990 Coordinator of the Cathedra for Study of the Culture and History of the Jews of Salonika and Greece
-1992 Head of the Institute for Diaspora Research

Active Participation in Professional Conferences:

1995 - Workshop on the "Formation and Transmission of Traditions in Muslim Societies," School of History, Tel Aviv University, (Collective Memories and Group Boundaries: The Judeo-Spanish Diaspora between the Lands of Christendom and the World of Islam) < br>
1995 - International Conference "The Jewish Communities in the Balkans and Turkey in the 19th and 20th Centuries through the End of World War II," (Opening lecture: Jews in an age of Transition: From an Empire of Many Peoples to a World of National States )

1996 - "The Jewish Discovery of Islam," Tel Aviv University (Pedigree - Remembered, Recovered, Invented: Benjamin Disraeli Between East and West)

1996 - The Howard Gilman International Conference in Turkey: "Turkey as a Crossroads of Cultures," Tel Aviv University, Uludaé University and Ankara University (Public Space and Private Space among the Jews of Istanbul in the 16th and 17th Centuries)

1996 - CIEPO 12th symposium, Prague, Charles University (The Jewish Quarter in Hask"y in the 19th Century)




Major publications (books and major articles):


*Books:*

1) Minna Rozen, The Ruins of Jerusalem - A History of Jerusalem under the Government of Muhammed Ibn Farrukh, (Edited and annotated by Minna Rozen) University of Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv 1981, 207p. (Hebrew)

2) Minna Rozen, The Jewish Community of Jerusalem in the Seventeenth Century, Tel Aviv University and the Ministry of Defense-Publishing House, Tel Aviv 1984, 625p. (Hebrew)

3) Minna Rozen, Beniamin Abendana, His Wanderings and Adventures in Italy and the Levant as Related by Francesco da Serino, University of Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv 1985, 113p. (Hebrew)

4) Minna Rozen, Jewish Identity and Society in the 17th Century: Reflections on the Life and Works of Refael Mordekhai Malki, J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), Tbingen 1992, 220p.

5) Minna Rozen, In the Mediterranean Routes, the Jewish-Spanish Diaspora from the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries, University of Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv 1993, 200p. (Hebrew)

6) Minna Rozen, Hask"y Cemetery: Typology of Stones, Tel Aviv University and The Center for Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Tel Aviv 1994, 400p.



*In preparation*

7) Introduction to the History of the Jewish Community of Istanbul (1453Ä1566)

8) Life and Death in the Golden Horn -- the Jewish Neighborhoods of Hask"y and Galata during the Seventheenth to Nineteenth Centuries



*Articles:*

1) Minna Rozen & Eliezer Witztum, "The Dark Mirror of the Soul: Dreams of a Jewish Physician in Jerusalem at the End of the 17th Century", REJ, CLI, (1992), pp. 5-42.

2) Minna Rozen, "La vie ‚conomique des juifs du bassinm‚diterran‚en de l'expulsion d'Espagne (1492) … la fin du XVIIIe siŠcle", La Soci‚t‚ juive … travers les ƒges (ed. S. Trigano), Librairie ArthŠme Fayard, Paris 1993, pp.

3) Minna Rozen, "A Survey of Jewish Cemeteries in Western Turkey", JQR, LXXXIII (1992), pp. 71-125.

4) Minna Rozen, "Individual and Community in Jewish Society of the Ottoman Empire: Salonika in the 16th Century", The Jews of the Ottoman Empire, (ed. A. Levi), Darwin Press, Princeton NJ., 1994, pp. 215-274.

5) Minna Rozen, ªThe Corv‚e of Operating the Mines in SiderakapÈsÈ and Its Effects on the Jewish Community in Thessaloniki in the 16th Century© (accepted to publication also in English see "In press" no. 4) in M. Rozen, ed., The Days of the Crescent Ä Ä Chapters in the History of the Jews in the Ottoman Period, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv University, 1996, pp. 13-38



*In press:*

1) Minna Rozen, ªEncounter in History: The Impact of Turkish Art and Culture on the Funereal Art and Rites of the Jewish Cemetery of Hask"y©, Actes of the 9th International Congress of Turkish Art (ed. Nurhan Atasoy), Istanbul, Istanbul University, 20 p.

2) Minna Rozen, ªThe Cycle of Life and the meaning of Old Age in the Ottoman Period©, in Daniel Carpi Jubilee Book, (eds., A. Shapira, D. Porat and M. Rozen) Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 40pp.

3) Minna Rozen, ªCollective Memories and Group Boundaries: The Judeo-Spanish Diaspora between the Lands of Christendom and the World of Islam©, Michael 14 (eds., Y. Nini, S. Simonsohn and M. Rozen).

4) Minna Rozen, "Classical Echoes in Ottoman Istanbul", Jewish Arts and Hellenic Arts (ed., A. Ovadia), Tel Aviv University, 35pp.



*Editing:*

Minna Rozen (ed.), The Days of the Crescent ÄÄ Chapters in the History of The Jews in the Ottoman Empire, Tel Aviv University (The Diaspora Research Institute, Tel Aviv 1996, 412p. (Hebrew)



*In press:*

1) Dina Porat, Anita Shapira and Minna Rozen, eds., Daniel Carpi's Jubilee Volume, Tel Aviv University

2) Minna Rozen, ed., The Jews of the Balkan Countries and Turkey in the 19th through 20 Centuries until the End of the Second World War, Tel Aviv University

3) Y. Nini, S. Simonsohn and M. Rozen, eds., Michael 14, History of the Jews in the Muslim Lands, Tel Aviv University

Teaches in the following subject areas:


Major fields of reserch and teaching: Ottoman Jewish History (16th through 19th centuries)

Teaches the following courses in the current academic year:


The Living and Dead: The Culture of Death and Its Conception in Jewish Mediterranean Society (1492-1914)

Rich and Poor in 16th Ä17th centuries Jewish Society in Salonika

The Jewish Neighborhood in the Ottoman 17th Ä 19th centuries

Areas of current research interest:


Istanbul Jewish Community in the Ottoman Period

Death Culture in the Jewish Mediterranean World

Additional points of contact (office/home telephone,fax,etc.):


Home address: 50 Romema, Givat Hamoreh, Afula, 18750
Telephone/fax: (Home) 06-592227,
(Office) 03-6409799, 03-6409462
Fax in office: 972-3-6407287

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