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

Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2020] ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 254 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture. Contents The Djuderia and public space -- Kualo es la vera karidad? What is true charity? -- Make a monsieur out of him! -- Sustaining the kehillah : taxing "el puevlo" -- Authority and leadership : representing "el puevlo." 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Sephardim -- Turkey -- İzmir -- History Sephardim -- Turkey -- İzmir -- Social conditions Sephardim -- Turkey -- İzmir -- Economic conditions Jews -- Turkey -- İzmir -- History -- 19th century Jews -- Turkey -- İzmir -- History -- 20th century HISTORY / Jewish. Jews Sephardim Sephardim -- Social conditions SUBJECT Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85138802 Subject Turkey Turkey -- İzmir Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2019013728 ISBN 9781503610927 1503610926

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