Becoming Ottomans: Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern Era

by Julia Phillips Cohen

Book Overview

The Ottoman-Jewish story has long been told as a romance between Jews and the empire. The prevailing view is that Ottoman Jews were protected and privileged by imperial policies and in return offered their unflagging devotion to the imperial government over many centuries. In this book, Julia Phillips Cohen offers a corrective, arguing that Jewish leaders who promoted this vision were doing so in response to a series of reforms enacted by the nineteenth-century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190610700
• ISBN13: 9780190610708
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"