The Sultan S Jew

Author : Yaron Ben-Naeh
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 3161495233

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Jews in the Realm of the Sultans by Yaron Ben-Naeh Pdf

Jewish society in the Ottoman Empire has not been the subject of systematic research. The seventeenth century is the main object of this study, since it was a formative era. For Ottoman Jews, the 'Ottoman century' constituted an era of gradual acculturation to changing reality, parallel to the changing character of the Ottoman state. Continuous changes and developments shaped anew the character of this Jewry, the core of what would later become known as 'Sephardi Jewry'.Yaron Ben-Naeh draws from primary and secondary Hebrew, Ottoman, and European sources, the image of Jewish society in the Ottoman Empire. In the chapters he leads the reader from the overall urban framework to individual aspects. Beginning with the physical environment, he moves on to discuss their relationships with the majority society, followed by a description and analysis of the congregation, its organization and structure, and from there to the character of Ottoman Jewish society and its nuclear cell - the family. Special emphasis is placed throughout the work on the interaction with Muslim society and the resulting acculturation that affected all aspects and all levels of Jewish life in the Empire. In this, the author challenges the widespread view that sees this community as being stagnant and self-segregated, as well as the accepted concept of a traditional Jewish society under Islam.

Author : Daniel J. Schroeter
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0804737770

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The Sultan’s Jew by Daniel J. Schroeter Pdf

This book examines the Jewish community of Morocco in the late 18th and early 19th centuries through the life of a merchant who was the chief intermediary between the Moroccan sultans and Europe .

Author : Alma Rachel Heckman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781503614147

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The Sultan's Communists by Alma Rachel Heckman Pdf

The Sultan's Communists uncovers the history of Jewish radical involvement in Morocco's national liberation project and examines how Moroccan Jews envisioned themselves participating as citizens in a newly-independent Morocco. Closely following the lives of five prominent Moroccan Jewish Communists (Léon René Sultan, Edmond Amran El Maleh, Abraham Serfaty, Simon Lévy, and Sion Assidon), Alma Rachel Heckman describes how Moroccan Communist Jews fit within the story of mass Jewish exodus from Morocco in the 1950s and '60s, and how they survived oppressive post-independence authoritarian rule under the Moroccan monarchy to ultimately become heroic emblems of state-sponsored Muslim-Jewish tolerance. The figures at the center of Heckman's narrative stood at the intersection of colonialism, Arab nationalism, and Zionism. Their stories unfolded in a country that, upon independence from France and Spain in 1956, allied itself with the United States (and, more quietly, Israel) during the Cold War, while attempting to claim a place for itself within the fraught politics of the post-independence Arab world. The Sultan's Communists contributes to the growing literature on Jews in the modern Middle East and provides a new history of twentieth-century Jewish Morocco.

Author : Fernando Garcia-Arenal,Mercedes García-Arenal,Research Professor Mercedes Garcia-Arenal,Professor Gerard Wiegers,Gerard Wiegers
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003-06-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780801872259

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A Man of Three Worlds by Fernando Garcia-Arenal,Mercedes García-Arenal,Research Professor Mercedes Garcia-Arenal,Professor Gerard Wiegers,Gerard Wiegers Pdf

In the late fifteenth century, many of the Jews expelled from Spain made their way to Morocco and established a dynamic community in Fez. A number of Jewish families became prominent in commerce and public life there. Among the Jews of Fez of Hispanic origin was Samuel Pallache, who served the Moroccan sultan as a commercial and diplomatic agent in Holland until Pallache's death in 1616. Before that, he had tried to return with his family to Spain, and to this end he tried to convert to Catholicism and worked as an informer, intermediary, and spy in Moroccan affairs for the Spanish court. Later he became a privateer against Spanish ships and was tried in London for that reason. His religious identity proved to be as mutable as his political allegiances: when in Amsterdam, he was devoutly Jewish; when in Spain, a loyal converso (a baptized Jew). In A Man of Three Worlds, Mercedes García-Arenal and Gerard Wiegers view Samuel Pallache's world as a microcosm of early modern society, one far more interconnected, cosmopolitan, and fluid than is often portrayed. Pallache's missions and misadventures took him from Islamic Fez and Catholic Spain to Protestant England and Holland. Through these travels, the authors explore the workings of the Moroccan sultanate and the Spanish court, the Jewish communities of Fez and Amsterdam, and details of the Atlantic-Mediterranean trade. At once a sweeping view of two continents, three faiths, and five nation-states and an intimate story of one man's remarkable life, A Man of Three Worlds is history at its most compelling.

Author : Marc Baer
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804768672

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The Dönme by Marc Baer Pdf

This is the first study of the modern history, experience, and ethno-religious identity of the Dönme, the descendants of seventeenth-century Jewish converts to Islam, in Ottoman and Greek Salonica and in Turkish Istanbul.

Author : Lawrence Rosen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226317489

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Two Arabs, a Berber, and a Jew by Lawrence Rosen Pdf

"Drawn from Memory" is an important contribution to Moroccan studies, to the field of anthropology, and to academic approaches to biography. Rosen weaves the threads of his narrative together into a tapestry focused on the lives of four men: a raconteur, a teacher, an entrepreneur, and a cloth dealer, a Jew. Ordinary people have intellectual lives, Rosen tells us. They may never have written a book; they may never even have read one. But their lives are rich in ideas, constantly fashioned and revised, elaborated and rearranged. Rosen first encountered the four men he profiles in his book in the course of his academic research, and he then visited and revisited these men, and the towns in which they live, over several decades. He engaged them ina kind of continuous conversation. He spoke to members of their family, their neighbors, and the town people. Out of this wealth of material, he has constructed a narrative that takes the reader not only into four intensely observed individual lives but also, as it were, the history of Morocco s evolution across the span of many decades; he takes the reader not only into the outwardly lived lives of his subjects, but their innermost thoughts, their own perceptions of themselves and the evolving Moroccan world around them. At the same time, he manages to evoke the physical landscape, the towns in which these men live, marvelously well, so that the towns and their inhabitants come alive for the reader. Beautifully illustrated with archival and ethnographic photos, "Drawn from Memory" teaches us that that for Moroccans, and by extension Muslims in general, nothing in everyday social life is hard and fast, and the meaning and outcome of all interactions is the product of negotiation and relatedness."

Author : Shlomo Deshen,Walter P. Zenner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349248636

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Jews among Muslims by Shlomo Deshen,Walter P. Zenner Pdf

Jews Among Muslims is a collection of analytical and graphic descriptions of Jewish communities in North Africa and the Middle East in the 19th and early 20th century, written by anthropologists and historians. The introductory chapters set Middle Eastern Jewry into comparative settings. Particular chapters are devoted to most of the major communities, such as Morocco, Yemen, Iraq, Iran. Among the specific topics treated are: community autonomy, religious life and leadership, women and family life, education, social etiquette.

Author : Shmuelevitz
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004659292

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The Jews of the Ottoman Empire in the Late Fifteenth and the Sixteenth Centuries by Shmuelevitz Pdf

Author : Emily Gottreich,Emily Benichou Gottreich,Daniel J. Schroeter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 0253355095

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Jewish Culture and Society in North Africa by Emily Gottreich,Emily Benichou Gottreich,Daniel J. Schroeter Pdf

Daniel J. Schroeter is the Amos S. Denard Memorial Chair in Jewish History and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Minnesota. He is author of The Sultan's Jew: Morocco and the Sephardi World and Merchants of Essaouira. --Book Jacket.

Author : Martin Gilbert
Publisher : Emblem Editions
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780771035692

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In Ishmael's House by Martin Gilbert Pdf

From one of the most popular historians writing today comes a book as fascinating as the bestsellers of Karen Armstrong and Reza Aslan. In this captivating chronicle, Martin Gilbert shines new light on a controversial dilemma in the modern world: the troubled relationship between Jews and Muslims. Beginning at the dawn of Islam and sweeping from the Atlantic Ocean to the mountains of Afghanistan, Gilbert presents the first popular and authoritative history of Jewish peoples under Muslim rule. He confronts with wisdom and compassion the stormy events in their dramatic story, including anti-Zionist movements and the forced exodus to Israel. He also gives special attention to the twentieth century and to the current political debate about refugee status and restitution. Throughout, Gilbert weaves a compelling narrative of perseverance, struggle, and renewal marked by surprising moments of tolerance and partnership. A monumental and timely book, Jews under Muslim Rule is a crowning achievement that confirms Martin Gilbert as one of the foremost historians of our time.

Author : Thomas E Burman,Brian A. Catlos,Mark D. Meyerson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520296527

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The Sea in the Middle by Thomas E Burman,Brian A. Catlos,Mark D. Meyerson Pdf

The Sea in the Middle presents an original and revisionist narrative of the development of the medieval west from late antiquity to the dawn of modernity. This textbook is uniquely centered on the Mediterranean and emphasizes the role played by peoples and cultures of Africa, Asia, and Europe in an age when Christians, Muslims, and Jews of various denominations engaged with each other in both conflict and collaboration. Key features: Fifteen-chapter structure to aid classroom use Sections in each chapter that feature key artifacts relevant to chapter themes Dynamic visuals, including 190 photos and 20 maps The Sea in the Middle and its sourcebook companion, Texts from the Middle, pair together to provide a framework and materials that guide students through this complex but essential history—one that will appeal to the diverse student bodies of today.

Author : Elli Kohen
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0761836004

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History of the Turkish Jews and Sephardim by Elli Kohen Pdf

This book presents aliving history of the Turkish Jews. Author Elli Kohen attempts to combine the patience of the chronicler with the folksy humor of the storyteller, without undermining the presentation of the Sephardic Jews cultural history.

Author : Stephan Conermann
Publisher : V&R Unipress
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9783847007920

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Muslim-Jewish Relations in the Middle Islamic Period by Stephan Conermann Pdf

This book contributes to the history of medieval Jewry in general, as a basis for a comparative study of the position of the Jews in Christian Europe in the Late Middle Ages. The eight articles written by leading experts on this topic pay special attention to the following issues: the measure of tolerance of the Mamluk rulers and the Muslim populace toward the Jews; Jews in government positions and as court physicians; conversion and attitudes toward converted Jews; the Sufi (mystical) nature of Jewish leadership and its relation to the Sufi Islamic discourse; professional, intellectual, and legal interactions between Jews and Muslims. In the end, the contributions help us to sharpen our understanding of Jewish life during the Middle Islamic Period in the Near East.

Author : Richard Davey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Turkey
ISBN : WISC:89016087561

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The Sultan and His Subjects by Richard Davey Pdf

Author : Leo Lyon Zagami
Publisher : CCC Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781888729603

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Confessions of an Illuminati, Volume I by Leo Lyon Zagami Pdf

In English for the first time, a guide to the true secret structure of the Illuminati and their invisible network made of various power structures, author Leo Lyon Zagami uses their internal documents and reveals confidential and top-secret events. His book contends that the presence of numerous Illuminati brotherhoods and secret societies—just as those inside the most prestigious U.S. universities such as Yale or Harvard—have always been guides to the occult. From the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO)'s infiltration of Freemasonry to the real Priory of Sion, this book exposes not only the hidden structure of the New World Order and the occult practices but also their connections to the intelligence community and the infamous Ur-Lodges.