Role: Researcher, Professor Emeritus
Email: arbel@tauex.tau.ac.il
Scope of Research:
The Mediterranean world and Europe in the early modern period (social and economic aspects); The Jews in Venice’s Greek colonies; The Italian Renaissance; History of human attitudes to animals; at the Goldstein-Goren Center- directs the project on Jewish society in Venetian Crete (13th-17th centuries)
Academic Background:
Ph.D. of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Former head of the Salonica chair for the history and culture of the Jews of Greece. Has edited and co-edited various books and periodicals and published close to 100 scientific publications, mostly abroad.
Selected Publications
Listed below are only those publications that are related to the research project on Cretan Jews during the Venetian period.
For a comprehensive list of publications, see: https://english.tau.ac.il/profile/arbel
- Trading Nations: Jews and Venetians in the Early Modern Eastern Mediterranean (Leiden: Brill, 1995)
- Cyprus, the Franks and Venice (13th-16th Centuries) (London: Ashgate, 2000)
- (ed.) Minorities in Colonial Settings: Jews in Venice's Hellenic Territories (15th-18th Centuries), special issue of the Mediterranean Historical Review, 27/2 (Dec. 2012).
- "The Jews in Cyprus: New Evidence from the Venetian Period", Jewish Social Studies, 41 (1979), pp. 23-40, reprinted in: Cyprus, the Franks and Venice, op. cit.
- "Venice and the Jewish Merchants of Istanbul in the Sixteenth Century", in A. Toaff and S. Schwarzfuchs, eds., The Mediterranean and the Jews: Finance and International Trade (XVIth-XVIIIth Centuries) (Ramat Gan, Bar Ilan University, 1989), pp. 92-109.
- "The List of Able-Bodied Jews at the Cretan Town of Chania (Canea), 1536", in Daniel Carpi Jubilee Volume (Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, 1997), pp. 21-33
- "Shipping and Toleration: The Appearance of Jewish Shipowners in the Early Modern Period", in Seafaring and the Jews, Special issue of Mediterranean Historical Review, vol. 15/1 (June 2000), ed. N. Kashtan, pp. 56-71.
- "יהודים, צמיחת הקפיטליזם וקאמביו: אשראי מסחרי וביטוח ימי באגן הים התיכון בעת החדשה המוקדמת,", ציון 69/2 (2004), ע"ע 202-157.
- “The ‘Jewish Wine’ of Crete”, in Μονεμβάσιος οίνος, Μονοβας(ι)ά – Malvasia (Athens: National Hellenic Research Foundation, 2008), pp. 81-88.
- “Jews and Christians in Sixteenth-Century Crete: Between Segregation and Integration”, in "Interstizi": culture ebraico-cristiane a Venezia e nei domini veneziani tra basso medioevo e prima epoca moderna, eds. Uwe Israel, Robert Jütte & Reinhold C. Mueller (Roma: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2010), pp. 281-294.
- "What Happened to Famagusta's Jews Following the Ottoman Conquest of 1571?", in Minorities in Colonial Setting: The Jews in Venice's Hellenic Territories, ed. Benjamin Arbel, special issue of Mediterranean Historical Review, 27/2 (2012), pp. 241-249.
- "Notes on the Delmedigo of Candia", in Studi in onore di Piercesare Ioly Zorattini, eds Maddalena Del Bianco, Riccardo Di Segni and Marcello Massenzio (Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2014), vol. I, pp. 119-130.
- “Le donne ebree a Candia alla luce delle fonti testamentarie (c.1430-c.1530)”, Thesaurismata 45 (2015), Studi in onore di Maria Francesca Tiepolo, [published in 2017], pp. 1-43.
