Jews, Turks, Ottomans: A Shared History, Fifteenth Through the Twentieth Century
This book focuses on central topics, such as the structure of the Jewish community, its organization and institutions and its relations with the state; the place Jews occupied in the Ottoman economy and their interactions with the general society; Jewish scholarship and its contribution to Ottoman and Turkish culture, science, and medicine. Written by leading scholars from Israel, Turkey, Europe, and the United States, these pieces present an unusually broad historical canvas that brings...
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Includes 17 essays addressing major aspects of Jewish life as it existed throughout the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey from the 15th to the 20th centuries. Written by scholars from Israel, Turkey, Europe, and the US, the essays cover such topics as Rabbinic literature in the Late Byzantine and Early Ottoman periods; Jewish female education in the Ottoman Empire from 1846 to 1914; and German Jewish émigrés in Turkey. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR Digest of the Middle East The book is a remarkable contribution to the research and knowledge on the Jews of the Ottoman Empire; it is a significant aide for University students and scholars . . . . It is hoped that Levy's call for further collaborate research will materialize in additional volumes on Ottoman Jewry.
AcknowledgmentsA Note on Transliteration and PronunciationContributorsIntroductionPt. 1Jewish Society and the Ottoman Polity, Fifteenth through Eighteenth Centuries1Foundations of Ottoman-Jewish Cooperation32Jews in Early Modern Ottoman Commerce153The Development of Community Organizational Structures: The Case of Izmir354Rabbinic Literature in the Late Byzantine and Early Ottoman Periods525Jewish Contributions to Ottoman Medicine, 1450-180061Pt. 2Modernization and Transformation, Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries6Changing Patterns of Community Structures, with Special Reference to Ottoman Egypt777The Changing Relationship between the Jews of the Arab Middle East and the Ottoman State in the Nineteenth Century888Changing Relations between Jews, Muslims, and Christians during the Nineteenth Century, with Special Reference to Ottoman Syria and Palestine1089A Tale of Two Women: Facets of Jewish Life in Nineteenth-Century Jerusalem as Seen through the Muslim Court Records11910Jewish Female Education in the Ottoman Empire, 1840-191412711The Siege of Edirne (1912-1913) as Seen by a Jewish Eyewitness: Social, Political, and Cultural Perspectives15312The Industrial Working Class of Salonica, 1850-191219413The Special Relationship: The Committee of Union and Progress and the Ottoman Jewish Political Elite, 1908-1918212Pt. 3Aspects of Turkish-Jewish Relations in the Twentieth Century14German Jewish Emigres in Turkey23315Roads East: Turkey and the Jews of Europe during World War II24616Recipes of Magic-Religious Medicine as Expressed Linguistically26017Mario Levi: A Young Jewish Author from Istanbul272App. AEstablishment of Jewish Girls' and Mixed Schools, 1840-1913281App. BEnrollment in Girls' Schools by City, 1840-1917283App. CEnrollment in Mixed Schools by City, 1890-1914285Notes287Bibliography343Index381
\ Digest of the Middle EastThe book is a remarkable contribution to the research and knowledge on the Jews of the Ottoman Empire; it is a significant aide for University students and scholars . . . . It is hoped that Levy's call for further collaborate research will materialize in additional volumes on Ottoman Jewry.\ \ \ \ \ Religious Studies ReviewThis volume provides valuable, balanced coverage of recent research on Ottoman Jewish life, by seventeen leading U.S., Israeli, Turkish, and European scholars.\ \
