Extraterritorial Dreams: European Citizenship, Sephardi Jews, and the Ottoman Twentieth Century

by Sarah Abrevaya Stein

Book Overview

We tend to think of citizenship as something that is either offered or denied by a state. Modern history teaches otherwise. Reimagining citizenship as a legal spectrum along which individuals can travel, Extraterritorial Dreams explores the history of Ottoman Jews who sought, acquired, were denied or stripped of citizenship in Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries--as the Ottoman Empire retracted and new states were born--in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022636822X
• ISBN13: 9780226368221
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"