Author: Ilan KarmiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The Jewish Community of Istanbul in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Ilan KarmiThe Transformation of the Jewish Community of Istanbul in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Ilan KarmiThe Transformation of the Jewish Community of Istanbul in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Ilan KarmiThe Transformation of the Jewish Community of Izmir, 1847-1918
Author: Dina DanonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Numbering 25,000 by the turn of the twentieth century, Sephardi Jews had enjoyed a continuous presence in Ottoman Izmir for over four hundred years. Unlike other Sephardi communities of the eastern Mediterranean such as those of Istanbul and Salonica, the Jewish community of Izmir was established not in the direct wake of the Expulsion, but a full century later, as new generations of Ottoman Sephardi Jews migrated to the rapidly developing port city to participate in its economic growth. Izmir quickly emerged as a major center of Jewish life, and saw the development of numerous Jewish neighborhoods, schools, and synagogues, active Hebrew and Ladino printing presses, multiple rabbinic dynasties, and an extensive network of charitable associations. Despite its longevity and vibrancy, the Jewish community of late Ottoman Izmir has fallen prey to historiographical preoccupations that have placed it on the margins of both Ottoman and Jewish narratives. Its lackluster socioeconomic profile during the modern period has rendered it of tangential importance in studies on Izmir's ever-expanding commercial prowess during the 19th century. Up until very recently, the Jewish community of Izmir suffered the same neglect as the entire eastern Sephardi diaspora during modern times, as ideologically-driven narratives dismissed this collectivity as a footnote to the "glory" of medieval Sepharad. Izmir's role as the birthplace of Sabbatianism has only exacerbated its presumed marginality in ideological approaches that have charted the inexorable "decline" of the eastern Sephardi world after the early modern age. Despite what the silences in the current literature suggest, this study argues that the case of the Jewish community of Izmir is not only significant, but is of profound relevance in illuminating the complexities of modernity both within the Sephardi context as well as in the wider Jewish world. Drawing on a broad array of primary sources, among them previously unexplored Ladino archival material, it highlights how forces specific to late Ottoman Izmir, such as a rapidly changing urban landscape, pronounced westernization, and a continuous affirmation of communal autonomy, shaped how the city's Jewish community reinvented itself according to the perceived demands of the modern era. Focusing in depth on both social transformations, such as the emergence of new constructions of poverty, charity, and class, as well as transformations in communal self-government, such as the reconfiguration of structures of leadership and taxation, this dissertation seeks to highlight social and economic factors as agents of modern change. More broadly, through its exploration of uninterrupted Ottoman legitimation of Jewish particularism, this study aims to nuance prevailing approaches that interpret the modern Jewish experience largely through the framework of the tension between the "universal" and the "particular." As such, it argues that the case of Izmir is reflective of a distinctive Sephardi encounter with modernity, one primarily molded not by the "Jewish Question, " but rather the "Eastern Question."
Jews, Turks, and Ottomans
Author: Avigdor LevyPublisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815629412
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
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 together different perspectives and viewpoints. The book is a major, original contribution to Jewish history as well as to Turkish, Balkan, and Middle East studies.
The Jews of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic
Author: Stanford J. ShawPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349122351
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
This book studies the role of the Ottoman Empire and Republic of Turkey in providing refuge and prosperity for Jews fleeing from persecution in Europe and Byzantium in medieval times and from Russian pogroms and the Nazi holocaust in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It studies the religiously-based communities of Ottoman and Turkish Jews as well as their economic, cultural and religious lives and their relations with the Muslims and Christians among whom they lived.
The Transformation of a City
Author: Angelo GeorgakisBaghdadi Jewish Networks in the Age of Nationalism
Author: S. R. Goldstein-SabbahPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900446056X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Baghdadi Jewish Networks in the Age of Nationalism explores different components of Baghdadi participation in global Jewish networks through the modernization of communal leadership, satellite communities, transnational Jewish philanthropy and secular education during the Hashemite period (1920-1951).
The Urban Social History of the Middle East, 1750-1950
Author: Peter SluglettPublisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815631941
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The great cities of the Middle East and North Africa have long attracted the attention and interest of historians. With the discovery and wider use over the last few decades of Islamic court records and Ottoman administrative documents, our knowledge of Middle Eastern cities between the seventeenth and early twentieth centuries has vastly expanded. Drawing upon a treasure trove of documents and using a variety of methodologies, the contributors succeed in providing a significant overview of the ways in which Middle Eastern cities can be studied, as well as an excellent introduction to current literature in the field.
Sacred Precincts
Author: Mohammad GharipourPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004280227
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
This book examines non-Muslim religious sites, structures and spaces in the Islamic world. It reveals a vibrant portrait of life in the religious sites by illustrating how architecture responds to contextual issues and traditions. Sacred Precincts explores urban context; issues of identity; design; construction; transformation and the history of sacred sites and architecture in Europe, the Middle East and Africa from the advent of Islam to the 20th century. It includes case studies on churches and synagogues in Iran, Turkey, Cyprus, Egypt, Iraq, Tunisia, Morocco and Malta, and on sacred sites in Nigeria, Mali, and the Gambia. With contributions by Clara Alvarez, Angela Andersen, Karen Britt, Karla Britton, Jorge Manuel Simão Alves Correia, Elvan Cobb, Daniel Coslett, Mohammad Gharipour, Mattia Guidetti, Suna Güven, Esther Kühn, Amy Landau, Ayla Lepine, Theo Maarten van Lint, David Mallia, Erin Maglaque, Susan Miller, A.A. Muhammad-Oumar, Meltem Özkan Altınöz, Jennifer Pruitt, Rafael Sedighpour, Ann Shafer, Jorge Manuel Simão Alves Correia, Ebru Özeke Tökmeci, Steven Thomson, Heghnar Watenpaugh, Alyson Wharton and Ethel S. Wolper.