title: A New Source of Information on Circassians, Kabarda and the Kinjal Battle in the Early 18th Century: A Hebrew Chronicle from the Crimean Khanate
abstract: The aim of this publication is bringing to the attention of Circassian scholars the new-old source of one of the events in the early 18th century Kabarda territory of Circassia in English translation. Here are translated Chapters 22, 24, 36, 47 and 48 of a Hebrew Chronicle entitled Debar Śepatayim written around 1730 in the Crimean Khanate by David son of Eli‘ezer Lechno/Lekhno, a Rabbi of the Crimean Rabbanite community, a Jewish minority amongst the Jewish-Karaite majority in the Crimea. The c