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This book studies the role of the Ottoman Empire and Republic of Turkey in providing refuge and prosperity for Jews fleeing from persecution in Europe and Byzantium in medieval times and from Russian pogroms and the Nazi holocaust in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It studies the religiously-based communities of Ottoman and Turkish Jews as well as their economic, cultural and religious lives and their relations with the Muslims and Christians among whom they lived.
Empire of the Gazis: The Rise and Decline of the Ottoman Empire, 1280-1808 is the first book of the two-volume History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey. It describes how the Ottoman Turks, a small band of nomadic soldiers, managed to expand their dominions from a small principality in northwestern Anatolia on the borders of the Byzantine Empire into one of the great empires of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Europe and Asia, extending from northern Hungary to southern Arabia and from the Crimea across North Africa almost to the Atlantic Ocean. The volume sweeps away the accumulated prejudices of centuries and describes the empire of the sultans as a living, changing society, dominated by the small multinational Ottoman ruling class led by the sultan, but with a scope of government so narrow that the subjects, Muslim and non-Muslim alike, were left to carry on their own lives, religions, and traditions with little outside interference.
Between 1933-39 Turkey sheltered many Jewish emigres from Germany and Austria; in these and subsequent years, it suppressed the antisemitic and pro-Nazi organizations in the country. The Turkish embassy in Paris and consulates in France managed to save thousands of Jews who were Turkish nationals residing in that country. Turkish authorities assisted in the rescue efforts of the Jewish Agency in Istanbul, and Jewish refugees from occupied Greece. Includes numerous documents.
This illustrated textbook covers the full history of the Ottoman Empire, from its genesis to its dissolution.
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From the author's preface: Sublime Porte--there must be few terms more redolent, even today, of the fascination that the Islamic Middle East has long exercised over Western imaginations. Yet there must also be few Western minds that now know what this term refers to, or why it has any claim to attention. One present-day Middle East expert admits to having long interpreted the expression as a reference to Istambul's splendid natural harbor. This individual is probably not unique and could perhaps claim to be relatively well informed. When the Sublime Porte still existed, Westerners who spent time in Istanbul knew the term as a designation for the Ottoman government, but few knew why the name ...
Stephanie J. Shaw takes us into the inner world of American black professional women during the Jim Crow era. This is a story of struggle and empowerment, of the strength of a group of women who worked against daunting odds to improve the world for themselves and their people. Shaw's remarkable research into the lives of social workers, librarians, nurses, and teachers from the 1870s through the 1950s allows us to hear these women's voices for the first time. The women tell us, in their own words, about their families, their values, their expectations. We learn of the forces and factors that made them exceptional, and of the choices and commitments that made them leaders in their communities...
Introduction: Life with the Ottomans ... 9 PART I. CLASSICAL OTTOMAN HISTORY 1) 'The Land Law of Ottoman Egypt (960-1553): A Contribution to the Study of Landholding in the Early Years of Ottoman Rule in Egypt, ' Der Islam, vol. 38 (1962), pp. 106-137. ... 19 2) 'The Ottoman View of the Balkans, ' The Balkans in Transition, ed. Ch. and B. Jelavich, (University of California, Press, 1963) pp. 56-80. ... 49 PART II. OTTOMAN MODERNIZATION IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: THE TANZIMAT 3) 'The Ottoman Empire and the Serbian Uprising, 1804- 1807', The First Serbian Uprising, 1804-1813, ed. W.S. Vucinich, (Brooklyn College Press, 1982) pp. 71-94 ... 71 4) 'Some Aspects of the Aims and Achievements of the...
This 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.