Language:
English
Year of publication:
2023
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Social Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
28,1 (2023) 79-115
Keywords:
Jews History 20th century
;
Jews History 20th century
;
World War, 1914-1918 Jews
;
World War, 1914-1918 Jews
;
Lake Van (Turkey)
;
Urmia, Lake (Iran)
Abstract:
Until 1914, around 2,000 Jews lived in the area between Lakes Van and Urmia, an Ottoman-Iranian borderland. These Neo-Aramaic-speaking Jews of the Van-Urmia border region enjoyed relative autonomy from both the Ottoman Empire and Iran. But Jewish life in the Ottoman province of Van came to an end during World War I when violence, unrest, genocide, and expulsion combined to displace the community, known as Nash Didan, from the region. Using oral histories from Van-descended Jews, this study reconstructs memories of borderland life to reveal a lingering self-perception that conceives of Nash Didan identity outside of Ottoman, Turkish, or Iranian Jewish narratives. It also reinscribes this forgotten community into the growing literature on the Ottoman east.
DOI:
10.2979/jewisocistud.28.1.04
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