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Jews, Turks, Ottomans: A Shared History, Fifteenth Through the Twentieth Century » (1st Edition)

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Authors: Avigdor Levy
ISBN-13: 9780815629412, ISBN-10: 0815629419
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Date Published: January 2002
Edition: 1st Edition

Author Biography: Avigdor Levy

Book Synopsis

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.

	Acknowledgments
	A Note on Transliteration and Pronunciation
	Contributors
	Introduction
Pt. 1	Jewish Society and the Ottoman Polity, Fifteenth through Eighteenth Centuries
1	Foundations of Ottoman-Jewish Cooperation	3
2	Jews in Early Modern Ottoman Commerce	15
3	The Development of Community Organizational Structures: The Case of Izmir	35
4	Rabbinic Literature in the Late Byzantine and Early Ottoman Periods	52
5	Jewish Contributions to Ottoman Medicine, 1450-1800	61
Pt. 2	Modernization and Transformation, Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
6	Changing Patterns of Community Structures, with Special Reference to Ottoman Egypt	77
7	The Changing Relationship between the Jews of the Arab Middle East and the Ottoman State in the Nineteenth Century	88
8	Changing Relations between Jews, Muslims, and Christians during the Nineteenth Century, with Special Reference to Ottoman Syria and Palestine	108
9	A Tale of Two Women: Facets of Jewish Life in Nineteenth-Century Jerusalem as Seen through the Muslim Court Records	119
10	Jewish Female Education in the Ottoman Empire, 1840-1914	127
11	The Siege of Edirne (1912-1913) as Seen by a Jewish Eyewitness: Social, Political, and Cultural Perspectives	153
12	The Industrial Working Class of Salonica, 1850-1912	194
13	The Special Relationship: The Committee of Union and Progress and the Ottoman Jewish Political Elite, 1908-1918	212
Pt. 3	Aspects of Turkish-Jewish Relations in the Twentieth Century
14	German Jewish Emigres in Turkey	233
15	Roads East: Turkey and the Jews of Europe during World War II	246
16	Recipes of Magic-Religious Medicine as Expressed Linguistically	260
17	Mario Levi: A Young Jewish Author from Istanbul	272
App. A	Establishment of Jewish Girls' and Mixed Schools, 1840-1913	281
App. B	Enrollment in Girls' Schools by City, 1840-1917	283
App. C	Enrollment in Mixed Schools by City, 1890-1914	285
	Notes	287
	Bibliography	343
	Index	381

Category Books

Jews, Turks, Ottomans: A Shared History, Fifteenth Through the Twentieth Century » (1st Edition)

Author Biography: Avigdor Levy

Book Synopsis

Digest of the Middle East

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