Publications
Books:

1. Y. Harel, The Books of Aleppo - The Rabbinic Literature of the
Scholars of Aleppo, Jerusalem 1997 (Hebrew)

Articles:

1. Y. Harel, 'Leadership and Regime in the Bukharan Community in Eretz
Israel
     1914-1944', Pe'amim, 35 (1988), pp. 156-169 (Hebrew)

2. Y. Harel, 'The Overthrow of the Last Aleppan Chief Rabbi', Pe'amim,
44 (1990),
     pp. 110 - 131 (Hebrew)

3. Y. Harel, 'A Spiritual Agitation in the East - The Foundation of a
Reform
     Community in Aleppo in 1862', HUCA, Vol. LXIII (1992), pp. ??-??

4. Y. Harel, 'The Edict to Destroy 'Em LaMikra' - Aleppo 1865', HUCA,
LXIV
     (1993), pp. ??-?? (Hebrew)

5. Y. Harel, 'Latakia - A Forgotten Colony of the First Aliyah',
Cathedra, 74 (1994),
     pp. 62-85 (Hebrew)

6. Y. Harel, 'The Encounter of Exiles from Palestine with Damascus Jewry
in the
     Twentieth Century', Zion, 61 (1996), pp. 183-207 (Hebrew)

7. Y. Harel, 'The Status and Image of the Piccioto Family as Perceived
by Aleppo's
     French Colony (1784-1850)', Michael, 14 (1997), pp. 171-186
(Hebrew)

8. Y. Harel, '"Great Progress": The Committee of Deputies and the
Community of
    Damascus - Surveys, Programs and Actions', Pe'amim, 67 (1996), pp.
57-95
    (Hebrew)

9. Y. Harel, 'The Influence of the Books "Pnei Yizhak", "Yismah Lev" and
"Lev
    Nishbar" on the Struggle on the Post of the Chief Rabbi in Damascus
1873-1883',
    Asufot, 11 (1998), pp. 211-243 (Hebrew)

10. Y. Harel, 'Disagreement  and Agreement - Sephardim and Musta'ribun
in
      Aleppo', in Y. Dishon & S. Rephael (eds.), Ladinar - Research in
the Literature,
      Music and History of the Ladino Speakers, Tel Aviv 1998, pp.
119-138 (Hebrew)

11. Y. Harel, 'The Damascus Jewish Community and Its Customs in the
Notes of
      Eliezer Rivlin', Pe'amim, 74 (1998), pp. 131-155 (Hebrew)

12. Y. Harel, 'Midhat Pasha and the Jewish Community of Damascus: Two
New
      Documents,  Turcica, 28 (1996), pp. 339-345.

 13. Y. Harel, 'Jewish-Christian Relations in Aleppo as Background for
the Jewish
       Response to the Events of October 1850',  IJMES, 30.1  (1998),
pp. 77-96.

 14. Y. Harel, ' The First Jews from Aleppo in Manchester: New
Documentary
       Evidence', AJS Review,  23/2 (1998), pp. 191-202

 15. Y. Harel, 'The Controversy over Rabbi Ephraim Laniado's Inheritance
of the
       Rabbinate in Aleppo',  Jewish History, 13/1 (1999), pp. 83-101
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