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2. Professor Dan Shapira
Edited Books
,‫ קוסץ מחקרים‬- ‫צבי‬-‫ דו"ח משלחת אפיגרפית של מכון בן‬,‫ קרים‬,‫קלעה‬-‫מצבות בית העלמין של היהודים הקראים בצ'ופוט‬
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,‫צבי והאוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים‬-‫צבי לחקר קהילות ישראל במזרח של יד יצחק בן‬-‫מכון בן‬, ‫בעריכת דן ד"י שפירא‬
2008 / ‫ירושלים תשס"ח‬
[The Tombstones of the Cemetery of the Karaite Jews in Çufut-Qaleh (the Crimea). Report of the BenZvi Institute Expedition. A Collection of Studies, edited by Dan D.Y. Shapira, Ben-Zvi Institute,
Jerusalem 2008 {Hebrew}]
Articles in Refereed Journals

“Polish Sarmatism, Turkism, and ‘Jewish szlachta’: Some Reflections on a Cultural Context of the
Polish-Lithuanian Karaites”, Kara Deniz Araştırmaları, 20 (2009), pp. 29-43.

“Gleanings on Jews of Greater Iran under the Sasanians According to the Oldest Armenian and
Georgian Texts”, Iran & the Caucasus 12/2 (2008), pp. 191-216.
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IРАНО-СЛАВІКА: Нотатки щодо іранських, слов’янських, східно-європейських («руських»),
германських, тюркських та хазарських студій, Ruthenica VI (Kiev 2007), pp. 7-36.

"Notes on Early Jewish History in Eastern and Central Europe: The Rus', Khazar and Bulgar
Dimensions", Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi, 15 (2006/7), pp. 125-157.

"Osmanlı Imparatorluğu'nda Karay Matbaası", Toplumsal Tarih 156 (Aralık 2006), pp. 55-59.

"Remarks on Avraham Firkowicz and the Hebrew Mejelis 'Document'", Acta Orientalia Academiae
Scientiarum Hungaricae, 59:2 (2006), pp. 131-180.

"Stray Notes on Aksum and Himyar", Scrinium 2 (2006), pp. 433-443.

"'Tabernacle of Vine': Some (Judaizing?) Features in the Old Georgian Vita of St. Nino", Scrinium 2
(2006), pp. 273-306.
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"Kak nabljudatel' transformiruet nabljudaemyj objekt: A. Firkovič na Kavkaze v 1840 g. i v 18491850 gg. i ego vlijanie na gorskix jevreev", Judaica Rossica, IV (Moscow 2006), pp. 8-30.

“Tendencies and Agenda in Karaite and Karaite-related Studies in Eastern Europe in the 20th
Century”, Pinkas 1 (Vilnius 2006), pp. 333-355.

"Harut and Marut, Again", Scrinium II (2006), pp. 418-432.

"On Avestan Scriptural Sources of Mazdak's Teachings", Nāme-ye Irān-e Bāstān. International
Journal for Ancient Iranian Studies 5/1&2 (2005-6), pp. 63-82.
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Department of Middle
Eastern Studies
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Fax: 03-7384168
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"Irano-Slavica. Notes for Iranian, Slavic, Eastern-European ("Russian"), Germanic, Turkic and
Khazar Studies", AHMEa 14 (2005), pp. 197-230.

D. Shapira & D. Vasyutinsky, "New Samaritan Findings in the Ukrainian National Library",
Hadshot ha-Shomronim 11-15 (2005), pp. 914-915, (Hebrew).

“Indeed Ancestral Tombs? – Historical Data and their Modification in the Tombstone Inscriptions of
Abraham Firkowicz”, Pe’amim 98-99 (Winter-Spring 2004), pp. 261-318.
Articles in Refereed Books and Proceedings
 “Nynešneje sostojanije pripisok rukopisej Pervoj Kollekcii Firkoviča", Proceedings of the 11th
International Conference on Jewish Studies, Part 1, Moscow 2004, pp. 102-130 [Russian] / “The
Present State of Some Colophons and Marginalia on the Bible Manuscripts in the First Firkowicz
Collection", SEFER International Conference, Vol. 1, Moscow 2004, pp. 102-130 [Russian].
 “Judaization of Central Asian Traditions as Reflected in the so-called Jewish-Khazar
Correspondence, with Two Excurses: A. Judah Halevy’s Quotes; B. Eldad Ha-Dani; and With An
Addendum”, Khazars, ed. by V. Petrukhin, W. Moskovich, A. Fedorchuk, A. Kulik, D. Shapira
(Jews and Slavs, Vol. 16), Gesharim, Jerusalem & Moscow 2005, pp. 503-521.
 "A Jewish Pan-Turkist: Serayah Szapszał's Work Qırım Qaray Türkleri", Acta Orientalia
Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae (58:4) 2005, pp. 349-380 [an earlier version: "A Jewish PanTurkist: Serayah Szapszal (Şapşaloğlu) and his work Qırım Qaray Türkleri (1928) (Judaeo-Türkica
XIII)", XIV. Türk Tarihi Kongresi Ankara: 9-13 Eylül 2002, Kongreye Sunulan Bildiriler, I. Cilt,
Ankara 2005, pp. 187-212].
 "Pahlavi Flowers", Languages of Iran: Past and Present. Iranian Studies in memoriam David Neil
MacKenzie, ed. by D. Weber, Wiesbaden 2005, pp. 177-184.
 "Judaeo-Armeniaca: On Jewish Lexica in Classical Armenian", Xristianskij Vostok NS IV (10) (St.
Petersburg 2003) [published 2006], pp. 340-346.
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 D. Vasyutinski & D. D.Y. Shapira, "A Newly Found Collection of Samaritan manuscripts in the V.
Vernadsky Ukrainian National Library in Kiev", Judea and Samaria Research Studies, 15 (Ariel
2006), pp. 221-226.
 "Linguistic Adaptation in the Bible Translations into the Turkic Languages of the Karaites",
Massoroth 13-14 (2006), ed. S.E. Fassberg & A. Maman, Jerusalem 2006, pp. 253-278 (Hebrew).
 “Mandaean and quasi-Mandaean Prototypes of some expressions in the Greek Cologne Mani
Codex: Stray Aramaicist's Notes", Proceedings of the 5th Conference of the Societas Iranologica
Europea (Ravenna, 6-11 ottobre 2003), ed. by Antonio Clemente Domenico Panaino, A. Piras,
Societas Iranologica Europaea, Published by Mimesis Edizioni, Milano 2006, pp. 691-700.
 “Armenian and Georgian Sources on the Khazars: A Re-Evaluation”, The World of the Khazars:
New Perspectives. Selected Papers from the Jerusalem 1999 International Khazar Colloquium, ed.
H. Ben-Shammai, P.B. Golden, A. Roná-Tas, Brill, Leiden 2007, pp. 307-352.
 “Iranian Sources on the Khazars”, The World of the Khazars: New Perspectives. Selected Papers
from the Jerusalem 1999 International Khazar Colloquium, ed. H. Ben-Shammai, P.B. Golden, A.
Roná-Tas, Brill, Leiden 2007, pp. 291-306.
 “Khazars and Karaites, Again”, Kara Deniz Araştırmaları, (IV/13) (Black Sea Studies in memoriam
of Omeljan Pritsak (1919-2006), 2007, pp. 43-64.
 “The Mejelis 'Document' and Tapani Harviainen: On Scholarship, Firkowicz and Forgeries”,
Omeljan Pritsak Armağanı / A Tribute to Omeljan Pritsak, ed. by Mehmet Alpargu & Yücel
Öztürk, Sakarya 2007, pp. 303-393.
 “Some Notes on the History of the Crimean Jewry from the Ancient Times Until the End of the 19 th
Century, With Emphasis on the Qrımçaq Jews in the First Half of the 19th Century”, Jews and
Slavs 19 (2007), ed. by W. Moskovich and L. Finberg, Jerusalem–Kyiv: Hebrew University;
[Ukrainian] Institute of Jewish Studies, 2007, pp. 65-92.
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Department of Middle
Eastern Studies
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Fax: 03-7384168
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‫ לשונות יהודי ספרד והמזרח‬,"‫ "השפות התורכיות של קראי מזרח אירופה וספרויותיהם עד תחילת המאה העשרים‬
.379-419 '‫ עמ‬,2008 ‫ ירושלים‬,‫ משגב ירושלים ומוסד ביאליק‬,‫ בעריכת דוד מ' בוניס‬,‫וספרויותיהם‬

“Some Remarks on History of Aramaic-speaking Jews and Christians of the Anatolian-Syrian
Borderland”, Osmanlı'dan Cumhuriyet'e Diyarbakır / Diyarbakır in the Ottoman Era, ed. by
Bahaeddin Yediyıldız & Kerstin Tomenendal, Ankara 2008, Vol. 3, pp. 665-675.
 “Persian, and especially Judeo-Persian, in the Medieval Crimea", Irano-Judaica VI, ed. Sh. Shaked
& A. Netzer, Jerusalem 2008, pp. 253-289.

“Some Notes on Jews and Turks”, Kara Deniz Araştırmaları, (16) (Black Sea Studies 16 (2008),
pp. 25-38.
 Reuven Kipperwasser & Dan D.Y. Shapira, “Irano-Talmudica I: The Three-Legged Ass and Ridya
in BT Ta'anith: Some Observations About Mythic Hydrology in the Babylonian Talmud and in
Ancient Iran”, AJS Review 32:1 (2008), pp. 101-116.

“Iconoclasts and Khazars, a Note”, Scrinium 4: Patrologia Pacifica. Selected papers presented to
the Western Pacific Rim Patristics Society 3rd Annual Conference (Nagoya, Japan , September 29
– October 1, 2006) and other patristic studies, ed. by V. Baranov & B. Lourié ( St. Petersburg ,
2008), pp. 341-347.
 "Jevrei v Severnom Pričernomorje ot Drevnosti do rannego Srednevekovja", "Jevrei v ranneje
Srednevekovje v sosednix s Rossijej stranax", "Obščhiny jevrejev Vostoka na territorii Rossijckoj
Imperii i Byvšego SSSR", and "Xazarskoje nasledije v Vostočnoj Jevrope",Istorija Jevrejev Rossii,
Moscow & Jerusalem: Gesharim 2008, Vol. I (ed. A. Kulik), pp. 11-41; pp. 42-72; pp. 73-85; pp.
158-178.
 “Karaite Printing in the Ottoman Empire”, Printing and Publishing in the Middle East. Papers from
the Second Symposium on the History of Printing and Publishing in the Languages and Countries
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of the Middle East, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris 2-4 November 2005, ed. by Philip
Sadgrove, Journal of Semitic Studies Supplement 24, Oxford UP 2008, pp. 1-12.
Encyclopaedia Articles

“Judeo-Tat”, Encyclopedia Judaica, Vol. 10 (2007).

“Jews in Khazaria”, Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and Culture, vol.
3, ed. M. Avrum Ehrlich, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2008, pp. 1097-1104.
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