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