The Jews of Ottoman Izmir : a modern history / Dina Danon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Danon, Dina, author.

Series:

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sephardim--Turkey--İzmir--History.

Sephardim.

Jews--Turkey--İzmir--20th century.

Jews.

Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.

Turkey.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2020]

Summary:

By the turn of the twentieth century, the eastern Mediterranean port city of Izmir had been home to a vibrant and substantial Sephardi Jewish community for over four hundred years, and had emerged as a major center of Jewish life. The Jews of Ottoman Izmir tells the story of this long overlooked Jewish community, drawing on previously untapped Ladino archival material. Across Europe, Jews were often confronted with the notion that their religious and cultural distinctiveness was somehow incompatible with the modern age. Yet the view from Ottoman Izmir invites a different approach: what happens when Jewish difference is totally unremarkable? Dina Danon argues that while Jewish religious and cultural distinctiveness might have remained unquestioned in this late Ottoman port city, other elements of Jewish identity emerged as profound sites of tension, most notably those of poverty and social class. Through the voices of both beggars on the street and mercantile elites, shoe-shiners and newspaper editors, rabbis and housewives, this book argues that it was new attitudes to poverty and class, not Judaism, that most significantly framed this Sephardi community's encounter with the modern age.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

A NOTE ON LANGUAGE, TRANSLITERATION, AND SYSTEMS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1. THE DJUDERÍA AND PUBLIC SPACE

CHAPTER 2. KUALO ES LA VERA KARIDAD? WHAT IS TRUE CHARITY?

CHAPTER 3. “MAKE A MONSIEUR OUT OF HIM!”

CHAPTER 4. SUSTAINING THE KEHILLAH: TAXING EL PUEVLO

CHAPTER 5. AUTHORITY AND LEADERSHIP: REPRESENTING EL PUEVLO

CONCLUSION

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781503610927

1503610926

OCLC:

1090695783