Jews, Turks, Ottomans
Subtitle: a shared history, fifteenth through the twentieth century
By: edited by Avigdor Levy.
Contributors: Levy, Avigdor.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Modern Jewish history
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Syracuse, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 395
Subjects: Jews -- Turkey -- History; Jews -- Turkey -- Politics and government; Jews -- Middle East -- History; Turkey -- Ethnic relations/; Middle East -- Ethnic relations; Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-379) and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Jewish society and the Ottoman polity, fifteenth through eighteenth centuries; title: Foundations of Ottoman-Jewish cooperation -- Halil Inalcik; title: Jews in early modern Ottoman commerce -- Daniel Goffman; title: Development of community organizational structures: the case of Izmir -- Jacob Barnai; title: Rabbinic literature in the late Byzantine and early Ottoman periods -- Israel Ta-Shma; title: Jewish contributions to Ottoman medicine, 1450-1800 -- Rhoads Murphey -- Pt. 2. Modernization and transformation, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; title: Changing patterns of community structures, with special reference to Ottoman Egypt -- Jacob M. Landau; title: Changing relationship between the Jews of the Arab Middle East and the Ottoman state in the nineteenth century -- Daniel J. Schroeter; title: Changing relations between Jews, Muslims, and Christians during the nineteenth century, with special reference to Ottoman Syria and Palestine -- Moshe Ma'oz; title: Tale of two women: facets of Jewish life in nineteenth-century Jerusalem as seen through the Muslim court records -- Amnon Cohen; title: Jewish female education in the Ottoman Empire, 1840-1914 -- Rachel Simon; title: Siege of Edirne (1912-1913) as seen by a Jewish eyewitness: social, political, and cultural perspectives -- Avigdor Levy; title: Industrial working class of Salonica, 1850-1912 -- Donald Quataert; title: Special relationship: the Committee of Union and Progress and the Ottoman Jewish political elite, 1908-1918 -- Feroz Ahmad -- Pt. 3. Aspects of Turkish-Jewish relations in the twentieth century; title: German Jewish emigrés in Turkey -- Frank Tachau; title: Roads east: Turkey and the Jews of Europe during World War II -- Stanford J. Shaw; title: Recipes of magic-religious medicine as expressed linguistically -- Marie-Christine Varol; title: Mario Levi: a young Jewish author from Istanbul-- Nedim Gürsel.