ISBN:
9781503610927
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (272 p)
Edition:
[Online-Ausgabe]
Year of publication:
2020
Series Statement:
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C
Keywords:
Jews History 19th century
;
Jews History 20th century
;
Sephardim Economic conditions
;
Sephardim History
;
Sephardim Social conditions
;
Jews History 20th century
;
Jews History 19th century
;
Sephardim Economic conditions
;
Sephardim History
;
Sephardim Social conditions
;
HISTORY / Jewish
Abstract:
By the turn of the twentieth century, the eastern Mediterranean port city of Izmir had been home to a vibrant and substantial Sephardi Jewish community for over four hundred years, and had emerged as a major center of Jewish life. The Jews of Ottoman Izmir tells the story of this long overlooked Jewish community, drawing on previously untapped Ladino archival material. Across Europe, Jews were often confronted with the notion that their religious and cultural distinctiveness was somehow incompatible with the modern age. Yet the view from Ottoman Izmir invites a different approach: what happens when Jewish difference is totally unremarkable? Dina Danon argues that while Jewish religious and cultural distinctiveness might have remained unquestioned in this late Ottoman port city, other elements of Jewish identity emerged as profound sites of tension, most notably those of poverty and social class. Through the voices of both beggars on the street and mercantile elites, shoe-shiners and newspaper editors, rabbis and housewives, this book argues that it was new attitudes to poverty and class, not Judaism, that most significantly framed this Sephardi community's encounter with the modern age
Abstract:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- A NOTE ON LANGUAGE, TRANSLITERATION, AND SYSTEMS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1. THE DJUDERÍA AND PUBLIC SPACE -- CHAPTER 2. KUALO ES LA VERA KARIDAD? WHAT IS TRUE CHARITY? -- CHAPTER 3. “MAKE A MONSIEUR OUT OF HIM!” -- CHAPTER 4. SUSTAINING THE KEHILLAH: TAXING EL PUEVLO -- CHAPTER 5. AUTHORITY AND LEADERSHIP: REPRESENTING EL PUEVLO -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Note:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
,
In English
DOI:
10.1515/9781503610927
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