The Jews of the Ottoman Empire
By: edited with an introduction by Avigdor Levy.
Contributors: Levy, Avigdor.
Publisher: Darwin Press; Institute of Turkish Studies
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J; Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 783
Subjects: Jews -- Turkey -- History.; Turkey -- Ethnic relations.
Description: "This volume is a major contribution to Jewish as well as to Ottoman, Balkan, Middle Eastern, and North African history. These twenty-eight original essays grew out of an international conference at Brandeis University -- the first ever to be convened specifically on this subject ... The essays focus on many central topics: the structure of the Jewish communities, their organisation and institutions, the scope of their autonomy, and their place in Ottoman society. Other subjects include Sephardic folklore, Jewish-Muslim acculturation, Jewish contributions to Ottoman arts, demographic perspectives of the Jewish communities, problems of immigration and emigration, the modernisation of Ottoman Jewry, and Jewish participation in political life."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 731-742) and index.