Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 534 g
Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern Era
Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 534 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-934040-8
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
The Ottoman-Jewish story has long been told as a romance between Jews and the empire. The prevailing view is that Ottoman Jews were protected and privileged by imperial policies and in return offered their unflagging devotion to the imperial government over many centuries. In this book, Julia Phillips Cohen offers a corrective, arguing that Jewish leaders who promoted this vision were doing so in response to a series of reforms enacted by the nineteenth-century Ottoman state: the new equality they gained came with a new set of expectations. Ottoman subjects were suddenly to become imperial citizens, to consider their neighbors as brothers and their empire as a homeland.
Becoming Ottomans is the first book to tell the story of Jewish political integration into a modern Islamic empire. It begins with the process set in motion by the imperial state reforms known as the Tanzimat, which spanned the years 1839-1876 and legally emancipated the non-Muslims of the empire. Four decades later the situation was difficult to recognize. By the close of the nineteenth century, Ottoman Muslims and Jews alike regularly referred to Jews as a model community, or millet -- as a group whose leaders and members knew how to serve their state and were deeply engaged in Ottoman politics. The struggles of different Jewish individuals and groups to define the public face of their communities is underscored in their responses to a series of important historical events.
Charting the dramatic reversal of Jews in the empire over a half-century, Becoming Ottomans offers new perspectives for understanding Jewish encounters with modernity and citizenship in a centralizing, modernizing Islamic state in an imperial, multi-faith landscape.
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Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums: Moderne & Gegenwart
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Kultureller Wandel, Kulturkontakt, Akkulturation
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
- Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums außerhalb Israels/Palästinas
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Migrations- & Minderheitenpolitik
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte des Judentums (Diaspora)
Weitere Infos & Material
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction: Becoming a Model Millet
- Ch 1: Mobilizing Jews: Lessons in Imperial Citizenship
- Ch 2: In the Synagogue and on the Streets: Celebrating 1892 as Ottomans
- Ch 3: Battling Neighbors: Imperial Allegiance and Politicized Violence
- Ch 4: Contest and Conflict: Jewish Ottomanism in a Constitutional Regime
- Conclusion: Imperial Citizens Beyond the Empire
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
