The Jewish pearl of the Aegean : Izmir : (language, literature, art and culture) / edited by Doğa Fi̇li̇z Subaşi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Studemund-Halévy, Michael, author of prologue.

Contributor:

Fi̇li̇z Subaşi, Doğa, editor.

Language:

English

Ladino

Subjects (All):

Sephardim--Turkey--İzmir--History.

Sephardim.

Sephardim--Turkey--İzmir--Social conditions.

Sephardim--Turkey--İzmir--Economic conditions.

Jews--Turkey--İzmir--History--19th century.

Jews.

Jews--Turkey--İzmir--History--20th century.

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

Turkey.

Jews--Language--History.

İzmir (Turkey).

Sephardim--Social conditions.

Turkey--İzmir.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered leaves, 518 pages : illustrations (black and white, color), charts ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

İstanbul : Libra Kitapçilik ve Yayincilik, [2023]

Summary:

"This volume is an excellent basic resource for scholars and textbook for students, it offers a new look at the history of Izmir and will not only be an exciting eye-opener for scholars but willl also surprise those familiar with the field. The contributors of this solid and well-researched reader- historians, linguists, Hebraists, Romance scholars, journalists - explore the rich, complex, and contradictory history of Jewish Izmir, and seek to capture and interpret the diversity of the Jewish experience in its breadth and diversity from a multidisciplinary perspective. With an eye toward urban studies, the reader brings together language and literature, archaeology and art, architecture and cemeteries, printing and journalism, music and theater, Jewish institutions, Jewish-owned business and shops, history, and family history" -- Provided by the publisher.

Contents:

History: The beginnings of the Jewish community in Smyrna / Jacob Barnai

Art, tradition and innovation in the Jewish community of Smyrna: a Turkish present and a Hispanic past / Miguel Ángel Espinosa Villegas

Urla Jewish community and cemeteries / Tayfun Caymaz

Languages and literature: Alexandre Benghiat's 'Kabastil' and his 'Letters from a Village, or Modern Judezmo Speakers' [:] conflicted relationship with the Turkish / David M. Bunis

Ne haber? Ke haber? Variation in spoken 21st-century Judeo-Spanish in İzmir / Carolina Francisca Isabel Spiegel

Jewish literacy production in İzmir / Maria José Cano Pérez

The rabbinic library of İzmir: a new encounter and initial attempt of preservation / Donna Dina Eliezer

İzmir, Cairo and Jerusalem, the (non-real) three edges of 'La sinyatura del kontrato' (1906) / Tania María García Arévalo

Memoirs: İzmir in the heart of the Sephardim / Pilar Romeu Ferré

Beth Israel synagogue of İzmir: the jewel of İzmir's Jews / Rachel Amado Bortnick

Introduction to Hayim Danon and Selim Amado articles / Rachel Amado Bortnick

The Beth Israel synagogue of İzmir / Hayim Danon

On the 100th anniversary of Beth Israel / Selim Amado

The house in Gündoğu / Moshe Shaul.

Notes:

Includes list of abbreviations.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786258472707

6258472702

OCLC:

1410730952