Jews in Muslim Lands, 1750-1830 Volume I: The Ottoman Middle East

by Tsur, Yaron; Wokoeck, Ursula

• ISBN13: 9781904113416
• ISBN10: 1904113419
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2023-11-01
• Publisher: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in association with Liverpool University Press

Author Biography

Yaron Tsur is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Jewish History at Tel Aviv University, where he is head of the research unit on the Jews of Islamic lands. He is the founder and academic director of JPress, the Historical Jewish Press website of the National Library of Israel and Tel Aviv University. His books include The Jews of Casablanca: A Study of Modernization in a Colonial Jewish Society (Hebrew; with H. Hillel, 1995), and A Torn Community: The Jews of Morocco and Nationalism 1943-1954 (Hebrew; 2001), winner of the Zalman Shazar Prize for Research in Jewish History (2002).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Note on Transliteration
Maps
Introduction
1. Istanbul: The Ottoman Capital
1. The Ruling Class
2. The Urban Landscape
3. Christians, Jews, and Muslims
4. Jewish Diasporas and Other Networks
5. The Missing Judaeo-Arabic Space
6. Ottoman Culture and Jewish Liturgical Poetry
7. Ordinary Jews through the Prism of Jewish Court Records
8. The Powerful Notables
9. Jewish Notables in Times of Crisis
2. Damascus, Acre, Jerusalem
1. The Farhis
2. The Ottoman Jewish Network of Notables
3. Jerusalem: The Community versus the Asker? Jews
4. Jewish Life in Muslim Court Records
5. Damascus
3. Aleppo
1. The Francos
2. Aleppo's Segmented Society
3. Social Segmentation and Budding Imperialism
4. The Francos as Port Jews
5. The Rise of the Picciottos
4. The Iraqi Province
1. The 'Wild East'
2. Basra
3. Blood Libel in Reverse
4. Baghdad: The Fate of the Notables and the Community
5. The Diaspora from Baghdad to the Far East
5. Egypt
1. Cairo
2. Jewish Customs Officials
3. A Segmented Society?
4. Notables and Rabbis
5. The Downfall of the Notables
6. The Holy Land
1. Hida's Travels among the Bedouins
2. Changes in the North of Palestine
3. The Aftermath of Hayim Farhi?s Murder
Epilogue
1. Askerî Jews
2. The 'Castrated' or 'Gelded' Elite
3. Port Jews
4. Hida and Other Learned Individuals
5. Signs of the Times
Glossary
Bibliography
Index