Jews, Turks, and Ottomans: A Shared History, Fifteenth Through the Twentieth CenturyThis 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. |
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Contents
Foundations of OttomanJewish Cooperation | 3 |
Jews in Early Modern Ottoman Commerce | 15 |
Rabbinic Literature in the Late Byzantine and Early Ottoman Periods | 52 |
Jewish Contributions to Ottoman Medicine 14501800 | 61 |
Changing Patterns of Community Structures with Special Reference | 77 |
Changing Relations between Jews Muslims and Christians during | 108 |
Facets of Jewish Life in NineteenthCentury | 119 |
Jewish Female Education in the Ottoman Empire 18401914 | 127 |
The Committee of Union and Progress | 212 |
German Jewish Emigrés in Turkey | 233 |
Turkey and the Jews of Europe during World War II | 246 |
Recipes of MagicReligious Medicine as Expressed Linguistically | 260 |
A Young Jewish Author from Istanbul | 272 |
Notes | 287 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Jews, Turks, and Ottomans: A Shared History, Fifteenth Through the Twentieth Century Modern Jewish History |
| Editor | Avigdor Levy |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Syracuse University Press, 2002 |
| ISBN | 0815629419, 9780815629412 |
| Length | 428 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Middle East / General |
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