A History of the Jewish Community in Istanbul: The Formative Years, 1453-1566: 26 (The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage, 26) - Hardcover

Minna Rozen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004185895 ISBN 13: 9789004185890

Publisher: BRILL, 2010

Synopsis

This volume presents the transformation of the Greek-speaking Jewish community of Byzantine Constantinople into an Ottoman, ethnically diversified immigrant community. As the Ottomans influenced its cultural and social values, the community strived to preserve its boundaries with the surrounding society.

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About the Author

Minna Rozen, Ph.D. (1977) in Jewish History, Tel Aviv University, is a Professor of Jewish History at the University of Haifa, Israel. She has published extensively on social history of the Sephardic Diaspora in the Mediterranean basin in Hebrew, English and French, and initiated major documentation projects of Jewish remnants in these regions.

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This volume presents the transformation of the Greek-speaking, Romaniot Jewish community of Byzantine Constantinople into an Ottoman, ethnically diversified immigrant community, showing the influence of the Ottoman conquest on cultural and social values. New and existing sources illuminate a society that was haunted by the dislocation and bereavement of the expulsion from Spain but was nevertheless materialistic and pleasure-seeking, with money and pedigree as supreme values. The society constantly redefined its relationships and boundaries with its former Iberian world and with the Ottoman non-Jewish world around it. The book is important to the study of Istanbul, particularly its Ottoman Jewish community. The chapters on Family Formation and Social Patterns serve family historians studying the early modern period. This second edition contains several pages of corrections and additions.

Edition details

• Publisher: BRILL
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004185895
• ISBN 13: 9789004185890
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 444