114:, as he would translate, for Professor Simha Assaf, Arabic documents from the Genizah which were located in Vienna. Ashtor even began writing the dissertation in Vienna, however after the Nazi annexation of Austria in 1938, he fled from Vienna to Jerusalem, where he continued his doctoral studies at the Hebrew University under the mentorship of orientalist L.A. Mayer, while also working at the National Library. During this period he was able access additional sources from the era he was researching, including documents from the Cairo Genizah, and among other things managed to date and attribute several undated documents to the
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and the takeover of rule in Egypt by the Bahri
Mamluks) until 1517 (the Ottoman conquest of Egypt). In the first two volumes, Ashtor incorporated information based on documents and records from the researched time period, from Muslim, Christian and Jewish sources, including documents from the Cairo
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Mamluks at that time, because he felt that "the history of the Jews in the Land of Israel requires special and superior investigation into every detail
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To write the second volume, on "The Jews in Egypt and Syria under Mamluk Rule", the Burji (Circassian) Mamluk period, Ashtor received the
Maurice and Charlotte Amalia Warburg Prize, becoming the first researcher to receive it. With the prize money he was able to reduce some of his work at the
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because of the unique role of the country in Jewish history. The qualified scientific circles recognized that this research needs to be carried out by a learned society... so why should an individual compete with a joint enterprise of learned scholars?"
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