A history of the Jewish community in Istanbul: the formative years, 1453-1566. MapBRILL, 2002 M01 1 - 414 pages This volume presents the transformation of the Greek-speaking, Romaniot Jewish community of Byzantine Constantinople into an Ottoman, ethnically diversified immigrant community, showing the influence of the Ottoman conquest on cultural and social values. New and existing sources illuminate a society that was haunted by the dislocation and bereavement of the expulsion from Spain but was nevertheless materialistic and pleasure-seeking, with money and pedigree as supreme values. The society constantly redefined its relationships and boundaries with its former Iberian world and with the Ottoman non-Jewish world around it. The book is important to the study of Istanbul, particularly its Ottoman Jewish community. The chapters on Family Formation and Social Patterns serve family historians studying the early modern period. |
Contents
The Ottoman Conquest of Constantinople | 1 |
The Ottoman State and the Jews of Istanbul | 16 |
Immigration and the Making of a Community | 45 |
Geographical History of the Community | 55 |
Patterns of Organization | 62 |
InterEthnic Encounters | 87 |
Patterns of Social Behavior The Family | 99 |
Social Stratification Wealth and Poverty | 197 |
Jewish woman from Edirne | 293 |
Turkish woman and her slave going to the bath | 294 |
Slave ? and the Turkish children she looks after | 295 |
Jewish widow and married Jewish woman from Istanbul | 296 |
Greek lady from Pera | 297 |
Jewish merchant | 298 |
Armenian merchant | 299 |
Greek merchant | 300 |
Economic Life | 222 |
Elite Culture and Popular Culture | 244 |
Relations with Ottoman Society | 278 |
ILLUSTRATIONS | 285 |
Map of Constantinople before the Ottoman Conquest 7 | 289 |
Turkish woman of medium means indoors | 290 |
Turkish lady of leisure | 291 |
Young Frankish woman from Pera | 292 |
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