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Avner Wishnitzer
21:05-22:20
בין הגדות: מסורת, גבולות, צורות חיים
חלק I: הבוספורוס
With Tsameret Levy-Daphny and Galili Shahar
In Hebrew
Topic of his lecture at the Night of Philosophy in Israel 2021:
Avner Wishnitzer is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern and African HIstory at Tel Aviv University. He specializes in the social and cultural history of the late Ottoman Empire. He is the author of As Night Falls: Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Cities after Dark (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and Reading Clocks, Alla Turca: Time and Society in the Late Ottoman Empire (Chicago University Press, 2015).
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