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 KarmiJewish Communities in Turkey During the Last Decades of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Paul DumontThe 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.
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 Last Ottoman Century and Beyond
Author: Minna RozenThe Jews in Palestine in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Y. BarnayPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 9780817305727
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Research reveals a clear connection between the legal and social status of the Jews in Palestine in the 18th century and their ties with the Diaspora. The Jews who had immigrated to Palestine in that period were mostly poor and elderly. The country was economically backward and politically unstable, which made it impossible for the immigrants to support themselves through productive work. Therefore they lived off the contributions of their brethren overseas. Taxes and fees imposed by the Ottoman rulers increased the financial desperation of the Jews in Palestine. Prohibitions against young unmarried immigrant men and women made for an unstable population largely of old men, many of whom died shortly after immigrating. Families succumbed to disease, earthquakes, and famine, but in the face of these problems, the Jewish communities in Palestine persevered. When financial support ceased at the beginning of the 18th century, it caused a sever crisis in the Yishuv (the Jewish settlement in Palestine). The Jews were unable to repay their debts to the Moslems, and many left the country. In 1726, a central organization was established in Istanbul to coordinate the Diaspora financial support of the Jews in Palestine. This Istanbul Committee of Officials oversaw the collection of support money for the Yishuv, managed the Palestine community's budget, established regulations for governing the communities, and settled disputes between the Jews and the gentiles. The importance of the Yishuv in the spiritual life of the Diaspora alone could not ensure the continuation of the Istanbul Officials was crucial. Fortunately, a registry containing copies of 500 letters written by the Istanbul Committee in the mid-18th century was preserved in the archives of the Jewish Theological Seminary. These letters reveal the extensive activity involving the Istanbul Committee and the Ottoman authorities, the Jews of Palestine, and the Diaspora. In this English translation of the original 1982 volume published in Hebrew, Barnai has updated his research to take into account recent scholarship. He concludes that during the period under review, the number of Jews in the Yishuv was actually very small, but they were completely dependent upon the charitable financial support of their brethren overseas, as well as the goodwill of the country's rulers.
A History of the Jewish Community in Istanbul
Author: Minna RozenPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004215727
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
This volume presents the transformation of the Greek-speaking Jewish community of Byzantine Constantinople into an Ottoman, ethnically diversified immigrant community. As the Ottomans influenced its cultural and social values, the community strived to preserve its boundaries with the surrounding society.
Protestant Missionaries to the Jewish Communities of Istanbul, Salonika and Izmir 1820-1914
Author: Leah Bornstein-MakovetskyPublisher:
ISBN: 9786057884596
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Jews from Konstantiniyye to Islambol
Author: Okan CakirPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Istanbul (Turkey)
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
In this study, I analyze the Jewish community of Istanbul in the 17th Century as reflected in the works of two çelebis, or bureaucrats, namely, Evliya Çelebi and Eremya Çelebi. The former was an Ottoman statesman and a traveler in the Ottoman world who is very well-known among students of Ottoman history. The latter was a preeminent Armenian scholar within the Armenian community of Istanbul who wrote a number of important works in the 17th century, although he is not very well-known by Ottomanists except for some of his works; this is in part because a number of his works are still waiting to be translated into Western languages. I will concentrate on Istanbul Jewry instead of all Jewish communities under the Ottomans, although I will provide the reader with information on other minorities and on other Jewish communities of the empire when necessary. In addition, to some extent, I will include other opinions on Istanbul Jewry: opinions of Jews themselves as reflected in responsa literature and of European travelers and visitors to the Ottoman Empire during this period. In this study, I reconsider the so-called millet system and question the insistence on the term "millet system" by some scholars, even those who acknowledge the incorrect application of this term to the pre-nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire. Then, I suggest a clarification of this issue with reference to works by experts on Ottoman minorities. In addition, I argue that the Seyahatname is a mirror of rising religious conservatism and restoration attempts within the empire, and therefore its timing and contents are also significant as can be seen from the evidences suggested in this work. Furthermore, I also seek answers for the omission of the Sabbatai Sevi episode in the Seyahatname and other Ottoman sources. I also suggest that Eremya Çelebi's works help us to have a better understanding of the Islamization process in Istanbul -especially in the 1660s- and the social and economic rivalry between the Jews and the Greeks around this time. Eremya's works also give us invaluable ideas concerning the Sabbatai Sevi episode and how one minority was seen from another minority's perspective