Kafkasya Calışmaları - Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi / Journal of Caucasian Studies Mayıs 2020 / May 2020, Yıl / Vol. 5, № 10 ISSN 2149–9527 E-ISSN 2149–9101 273 A New Source of Information on Circassians, Kabarda and the Kinjal Battle in the Early 18 th Century: A Hebrew Chronicle from the Crimean Khanate Dan Shapira * The aim of this paper is to bring to the attention of Circassian scholars and the researches in Circassian studies the English translation of a new-old and hitherto unstudied documentary source on one of the events in the Circassian territory of Kabarda in the early 18 th century Kabarda territory of Circassia in English translation. Here. Below are the English translations of chapters 22, 24, 36, 47 and 48 of a Hebrew chronicle written in around 1730 in the Crimean Khanate. The name of the chronicle partly translated here is Debar Śepatayim (pronounced Devár Sefatáyim), ‘an utterance of lips’, or ‘a word of two lips’, with ‘lips’ meaning dual in Hebrew, referring thus to the fact that most of the book’s contents was based on the information provided by two high-ranking Muslim informants from the Crimean Khanate, and that the book is a Hebrew translation of what had been transmitted to the author in Ottoman-Turkish or in Ottomanized Crimean-Tatar. The chronicle is written mostly in the style of broken Biblical (and, to a much lesser extent, Talmudic) quotations. This style of writing was normal in the pre-Modern Hebrew literature. This is why I relied heavily on the King James’ Bible to translate the Hebrew quotations. The reader of English is supposed to stumble and ponder for a while about what the text says, exactly as the Hebrew reader does. In many cases, the reader the chronicler had in mind to target was supposed to grasp not only the Biblical or Talmudic, etc., quotations, but the quotation’s broader context as well, or to raise to his mind the subsequent verses. Of course, it was impossible to mimic the Hebrew subtext thoroughly. The book covers events that occurred between 1681-1730/1 in the Crimean Khanate (with a special interest on the local events in * Dan Shapira, professor, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel. E-mail: shapiradan.apple@gmail.com. (Received: 21.12.2019; Accepted: 30.01.2020)