The Jews of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic [Hardcover]

This book studies the role of the Ottoman Empire and Republic of Turkey in providing refuge and prosperity for Jews fleeing from persecution in Europe and Byzantium in medieval times and from Russian pogroms and the Nazi holocaust in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It studies the religiously-based communities of Ottoman and Turkish Jews as well as their economic, cultural and religious lives and their relations with the Muslims and Christians among whom they lived.List of Plates - Acknowledgements - List of Abbreviations - Ingathering of the Jews - The Golden Age of Ottoman Jewry - Decline of Ottoman Jewry in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries - Revival of Ottoman Jewry in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - The Jews of the Turkish Republic Since 1923 - Appendices - Notes - Select Bibliography - Index