Jews, Turks, Ottomans: A Shared History, Fifteenth Through the Twentieth Century (Modern Jewish History) [Paperback]

Avigdor Levy (Editor)

Book Description

Series: Modern Jewish History | Publication Date: January 2003

An in-depth and widely ranging exploration of Jewish life in the Ottoman Empire and in modern Turkey.

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.

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...remarkable contribution to the research and knowledge on the Jews of the Ottoman Empire; it is a significant... -- Digest of the Middle East

This volume provides valuable, balanced coverage of recent research on Ottoman Jewish life, by seventeen leading U.S., Israeli.... -- Religious Studies Review

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr (Sd); 1 edition (January 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0815629419
• ISBN-13: 978-0815629412
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #756,596 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Excellent, for it brings out elements about the Balkan and the European history. Especially when red between the lines. It also shows the huge differences between various Jewish groups and cults and the role some of them played in the formation of the modern Turkish state.

Some openly Turkophile authors though (Stanford Shaw) couldn't help from defaming the Greeks as anti-semetic, cunningly hiding the fact that several Christian bishops saved the Jewish population giving them even false christian ID's and that many Greeks hid Jews in their homes, while the person that handed the list of Jews of Thessalonica to the nazis was the Austrian Rabbi Koretz. Shaw openly takes the side of the Turkish state, a state which chose to remain "neutral" so that it wouldn't break its traditional friendship with the Germans. A friendship that monitored several genocides (Greek, Armenian etc) the existence of of which Mr Shaw denies.