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Mina Rozen

Mina Rozen is an Israeli historian and professor emeritus at the University of Haifa who studies the Jews of the Ottoman Empire and the Balkans.

born 1947History of Ottoman JewryDocumenting Jewish gravestones in TurkeyResearch on Istanbul's Jewish community

Born: 21 October 1947, Tiberias
Occupation: historian
Education: Tel Aviv University

Mina Rozen was born in 1947 in Tiberias

Mina Rozen was born in Tiberias in 1947 and grew up in Afula. She began studying law at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

In 1966, after she married, she went back to Afula and switched to history at the University of Haifa. She earned a PhD in history at Tel Aviv University in 1976, with a thesis on the Jewish community of Jerusalem.

She taught at Tel Aviv University from 1973 to 1999 and directed its Diaspora Research Center from 1992 to 1997. Since 1999 she has taught at the University of Haifa, and she was a guest professor at Princeton University.

Her work combines history with fields such as sociology, literature, art history and gender studies. She studied a Jewish Portuguese trading network in the Mediterranean using European and rabbinical sources together.

From 1987 to 1990 she documented and photographed 61,000 Jewish gravestones in Turkey, over 40,000 of them in Istanbul. She also surveyed the records of the Istanbul Jewish community from 1701 to 1931 to study its social history.