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DGLnotes: Scholarship on Middle Eastern history, culture, and identity by D Gershon Lewental, PhD
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D Gershon Lewental, PhD—Publications

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Below, I provide a continuously-updated bibliography of my published works, including online links when available.

Table of contents

  • Books
  • Edited volumes
  • Peer-reviewed journal articles
  • Chapters in edited collections
  • Encyclopædia contributions (peer-reviewed)
  • Translations
  • Book reviews and review essays
  • Obituaries
  • Other writing
  • Unpublished work
  • Books

    Religion, nationalism, and historical memory in the Middle East: The Battles of al-Qādisiyyah. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming.

    History of Israel. London: Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming.

    Edited volumes

    Hahambaşı on the River Charles: Studies in Ottoman, Jewish, and modern Middle Eastern history in memory of Avigdor Levy. Edited together with Franck Salameh. Leiden: forthcoming, Brill, 2024.

    Peer-reviewed journal articles

    ‘Symbol of (Iranian) empire: The Sāsānian imperial standard (Derafsh-e kāviyān) from Arab-Islamic conquest narratives to modern nationalist myths’. History & Memory 36.2 (September 2024): 5–38 (DOI 10.2979/ham.00008). [online]

    ‘The Death of Rostam: Literary representations of Iranian identity in early Islam’. Iranian Studies 50.2 (March 2017): 223–245 (DOI 10.1080/00210862.2016.1248813). [online]

    ‘“Saddam’s Qadisiyyah”: Religion and history in the service of state ideology in Baʿthi Iraq’. Middle Eastern Studies 50.6 (November 2014), 891–910 (DOI 10.1080/00263206.2013.870899). [online]

    Chapters in edited collections

    ‘Iranian merchants in Istanbul, the ʿulamāʾ of the ʿAtabāt, and their impact on the Constitutional Revolution’. In Hahambaşı on the River Charles: Studies in Ottoman, Jewish, and modern Middle Eastern history in memory of Avigdor Levy, edited together with Franck Salameh. Forthcoming, Brill, 2024.

    ‘Abraham Danon: The Enlightenment rabbi from Edirne’. In Jewish Edirne: History, culture, music, edited Doğa Filiz Subaşı and Rıfat Bali, 205–209. Istanbul: Libra, 2024. [online]

    Encyclopædia contributions (peer-reviewed)

    ‘Rostam b. Farrokh-Hormozd’. Encyclopædia Iranica. Edited by Ehsan Yarshater. New York City: Columbia University Center for Iranian Studies, 1996–present (online, 2017) (DOI 10.1163/2330-4804_EIRO_COM_12074). [online (Iranica)] [online (Brill)] [online (Academia.edu)]

    ‘Qādesiya, Battle of’. Encyclopædia Iranica. Edited by Ehsan Yarshater. New York City: Columbia University Center for Iranian Studies, 1996–present (online, 2013) (DOI 10.1163/2330-4804_EIRO_COM_11440). [online (Iranica)] [online (Brill)] [online (Academia.edu)]

    ‘Amatus Lusitanus (Amato Lusitano)’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 1, 195–197 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0001850). [online]

    ‘Bekhor Ashkenazi (Behor Efendi)’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 1, 269–270 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0002400). [online]

    ‘Avanté’ Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 1, 294 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0002590). [online]

    ‘Solomon Ben Yaʿesh (also Ibn Yaʿish or Abenæs)’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 1, 396–398 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0003730). [online]

    ‘Albert Benaroya’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 1, 405–406 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0003800). [online]

    ‘Avraam Benaroya’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 1, 406–407 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0003810). [online]

    ‘Meʾir Bikayam’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 1, 476 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0004330). [online]

    ‘Bulgaria’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 1, 511–517 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_COM_0004680). [online]

    ‘Capital Tax Law (Varlık Vergisi, 1942)’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 1, 566–567 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0004930). [online]

    ‘Albert Carasso (Karasu)’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 1, 571–572 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0004970). [online]

    ‘Emmanuel Carasso (Karasu)’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 1, 572–573 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0004980). [online]

    ‘Carmona family’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 1, 574–575 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0005020). [online]

    ‘Bekhor Isaac David Carmona’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 1, 575–577 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0005030). [online]

    ‘Elia Rafael Carmona’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 1, 577–578 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0005040). [online]

    ‘Club des Intimes, Salonica’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 1, 647–648 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0005520). [online]

    ‘Tobias Cohn (Ṭuviyyah Cohen)’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 1, 652–653 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0005600). [online]

    ‘Israel Conegliano (Conian)’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 1, 660–661 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0005680). [online]

    ‘Abraham Danon’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 2, 25–26 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0006240). [online]

    ‘Henri E Del Medico’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 2, 50 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0006530). [online]

    ‘Jews in Diplomacy, Ottoman Empire and Sharifan Morocco’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 2, 82–88 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_COM-0006690). [online]

    ‘Dragomans (Tercuman; Translators)’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 2, 94–96 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0006760). [online]

    ‘El Progresso (Yosef ha-Daʿat)’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 2, 148–149 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0007110). [online]

    ‘Daniel de Fonseca’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 2, 218–219 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0007880). [online]

    ‘Albert Fua’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 2, 237–239 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0008050). [online]

    ‘Gaṭigno family’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 2, 273–274 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0008330). [online]

    ‘Elyakim ben Isaac Gaṭigno’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 2, 274–275 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0008340). [online]

    ‘ha-Mevasser, Istanbul, 1909–11’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 2, 350–351 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0009160). [online]

    ‘Samuel Ḥayyim’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 2, 386–387 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0009570). [online]

    ‘Ḥevra (Charitable or Sacred society)’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 2, 409–415 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_COM-0009740). [online]

    ‘Joseph Ibn Verga’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 2, 552–553 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0011220). [online]

    ‘David ben Solomon Ibn Yaḥya’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 2, 553 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0011270). [online]

    ‘Jacob Tam ben David Ibn Yaḥya’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 2, 554–555 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0020900). [online]

    ‘Mordechai ben Solomon Kalai’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 3, 90–91 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0012550). [online]

    ‘Yehoshua Kalef (Kalev)’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 3, 98–99 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0012570). [online]

    ‘Karmi Shelli (Edirne)’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 3, 121 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0012690). [online]

    ‘Joseph ben Nissim Kasabi’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 3, 121–122 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0012700). [online]

    ‘Kethüda (Kâhya, Heb. Shtadlan)’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 3, 130–131 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0012540). [online]

    ‘Kira (Kiera, Kyra)’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 3, 161–163 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0013000). [online]

    ‘La Boz de Izmir’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 3, 196 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0013170). [online]

    ‘La Luz de Israel (Istanbul)’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 3, 202 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0013250). [online]

    ‘La Nation (Salonica)’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 3, 202–203 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0013260). [online]

    ‘Aaron ben Isaac Lapapa’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 3, 210–211 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0013410). [online]

    ‘L’Aurore (Istanbul)’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 3, 217–218 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0013500). [online]

    ‘Le Jeune Turc’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 3, 220–221 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0013530). [online]

    ‘Le Journal d’Orient’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 3, 221–222 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0013540). [online]

    ‘Moshe Levi (ha-Levi)’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 3, 229–231 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0013610). [online]

    ‘Levi (le-Vet ha-Levi) family, Salonica’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 3, 231–234 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0013620). [online]

    ‘Shabbetai Levi’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 3, 237–238 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0013750). [online]

    ‘Maʿamad’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 3, 295 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0014110). [online]

    ‘Barukh ben Isaac Miṭrani’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 3, 435–436 [and Vol. 1, 351–353] (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_000517). [online]

    ‘Naḥmias family’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 3, 544–546 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0016320). [online]

    ‘Joseph Nehama’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 3, 567–571 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_COM-0016670). [online]

    ‘Joseph Niégo’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 3, 579–581 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0016840). [online]

    ‘Ottoman Empire 3. From 1650 to 1835’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 3, 612–619 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_COM-0017090). [online]

    ‘Pallache family (Turkish branch)’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 4, 36–38 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_COM-0017280). [online]

    ‘Samuel Primo’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 4, 99–100 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0017810). [online]

    ‘Solomon ben Nissim Qimḥi (Kamḥi)’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 4, 134 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0012580). [online]

    ‘Recanati family’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 4, 151–154 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0018290). [online]

    ‘Avram Salem’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 4, 214 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0018960). [online]

    ‘Emmanuel Raphael Salem’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 4, 214–216 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0018970). [online]

    ‘Ḥanokh Saporta’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 4, 252–253 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0019220). [online]

    ‘Isaac Ṣarfati’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 4, 261 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0019290). [online]

    ‘Aaron ben Joseph Sasson’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 4, 264 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0019350). [online]

    ‘Lucien Sciuto’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 4, 274–276 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0019460). [online]

    ‘Moshe Shaul’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 4, 351–352 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0020060). [online]

    ‘Samuel Usque’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 4, 583–585 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0021850). [online]

    ‘Solomon Usque’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 4, 585–586 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0021860). [online]

    ‘Azariah Yehoshuʿa (Joshua Ashkenazi)’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Edited by Norman A Stillman, Phillip I Ackerman-Lieberman, Avigdor Levy, et al. Leiden/Boston: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 4, 624–625 (DOI 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0022320). [online]

    Translations

    Books

    Harel, Yaron. Zionism in Damascus: Ideology and activity in the Jewish community at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. Translated from Hebrew by D Gershon Lewental. London: I B Tauris, 2015.

    Peer-reviewed journal articles

    Shahidani, Shahab. ‘The Role of the Safavids in the spread and institutionalization of the nastaʿliq script’. Translated from Persian by Mostafa Amiri and D Gershon Lewental. Journal of Persianate Studies 17.1–2 (2024), 149–188 (DOI 10.1163/18747167-bja10054).

    Harel, Yaron. ‘ha-Mizrah/al-Sharq: A Zionist newspaper in Damascus during the reign of Faysal in 1920’. Translated from Hebrew by D Gershon Lewental. Middle Eastern Studies 50.1 (January 2014), 129–143 (DOI 10.1080/00263206.2013.863758).

    Encyclopædia contributions (peer-reviewed)

    Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. 2nd ed. Leiden: E J Brill (forthcoming): 5 peer-reviewed entries (official Hebrew translator).

    Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Leiden: E J Brill, 2010: 140 peer-reviewed entries (official Hebrew translator).

    Encyclopædia entries

    Tsur, Yaron. ‘Historical Jewish Press’ website: numerous content (Hebrew translator for the project, 2010–2013).

    Book reviews and review essays

    Review essay of Joshua Lincoln, ʿAbduʾl-Bahā ʿAbbās: Head of the Bahāʾī faith: A Life in social and regional context (Tel-Aviv: Idra Publishing, 2023). Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 54 (2023): 471–477. [online]

    Obituaries

    Arjomand, Saïd Amir and D Gershon Lewental. ‘Mohsen Zakeri (1954–2024)’. Journal of Persianate Studies 17.1–2 (2024), 189–194. (DOI 10.1163/18747167-20040002). [online]

    Other writing

    [Coming soon.]

    Unpublished work

    ‘Qādisiyyah, then and now: A Case study of history and memory, religion, and nationalism in Middle Eastern discourse’. PhD dissertation, Department of Near Eastern & Judaic Studies, Brandeis University, 2011. [abstract] [review]

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