ISBN:
9786258472455
,
6258472451
Language:
English
Pages:
219 pages
,
color illustrations
,
24 cm
Edition:
1st edition
Year of publication:
2022
Series Statement:
Libra kitap 545
Series Statement:
History 465
Series Statement:
Libra kitap
Series Statement:
Libra kitap / Tarih dizisi
Keywords:
1800-1899
;
Jewish diaspora
;
Jews Emigration and immigration 19th century
;
Jews Emigration and immigration 19th century
;
Ashkenazim
;
Sephardim
;
Diaspora juive
;
Juifs - Turquie - Émigration et immigration - 19e siècle
;
Juifs - Russie - Émigration et immigration - 19e siècle
;
Ashkénazes
;
Séfarades
;
Sephardim
;
Jews - Migrations
;
Jewish diaspora
;
Ashkenazim
;
Turkey
;
Russia
;
Russland
;
Aschkenasim
;
Auswanderung
;
Türkei
;
Aschkenasim
;
Einwanderung
;
Istanbul
;
Sephardim
;
Geschichte 1800-1899
Abstract:
In existing scholarship on Jewish subjects of the Russian Empire, there were three typical fates available to Russia's Jews on the eve of the Bolshevik Revolution: they could remain in the shtetl, leave for a new life in America, or participate in the Russian Revolution. Tevye's Ottoman Daughter traces a fourth path, following the saga of Ashkenazi Jews who instead crossed the Black Sea to join their Sephardic coreligionists in the Ottoman capital of Constantinople and later Istanbul, or who joined agricultural communities in the Western Aegean sponsored by the Baron Maurice de Hirsch's Jewish Colonization Association. There, they considered, and reconsidered, the possibilities open to them, including eventual migration to Palestine, Western Europe, North America, and Argentina. Others stayed and forged a new life as an Ashkenazi minority in Istanbul, creating new organizations, places of worship, and political practices. These Russian Jewish migrants give us insight into the ethnic, religious, and political challenges as well as aspirations during the twilight years of the Ottoman Empire on the brink of Turkish Statehood
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (203-219)
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