Sephardi Lives A Documentary History 1700 1950 1st Edition by Julia Philips Cohen, Sarah Abrevaya Stein ISBN 0804771650 9780804771658

Part I. Everyday Life: On the Street and in the Synagogue, from Court to Courtyard

1. A Calamitous Earthquake Hits Izmir {1688}

2. A Will from Rashid, Egypt [1695]

3. Manumission of a Jewish Slave in Salonica [1700]

4. A Rabbi in Istanbul Interprets the Bible for Ladino Readers (1730)

5. Are the Dönme Jewish? A Rabbinical Reflection (1755)

6. An Incident in a Barbershop (1763)

7. Lessons for a Child: A Ladino Guide to Modern Living (1778)

8. Hoping for Redemption: Anticipating the Messianic Year 5600 (1840)

9. The Sins That Started the Fire: A Journalist’s View from Izmir (1846)

10. Class Conflict Amidst the Jews of Izmir: A Rebellion of the Jewish Poor (1847)

11. “A Lone Jew Among All Those Christians”: A Bulgarian Jewish Devotee of Classical Greek {1851–1856}

12. A Commercial Suit by a Jew Against a Muslim [1854]

13. A Petition for Aid: A Sephardi Collective in Jerusalem Appeals to the British Consul [1854]

14. A Muslim Intellectual Recounts a Jewish Communal Conflict in Istanbul (1862)

15. On the Possibilities of Synagogue Reform: An Ottoman Rabbi’s Answer to a Query from Paris (1869)

16. “The Sorrows of a Woman”: A Jewish Widow Faces Eviction [1866]

17. Is the Printing Press Harmful? A Rabbi from Sarajevo Responds (1870)

18. An Etiquette Handbook for Sephardi Women (1871)

19. In a City of Greek Christians: A Jewish Man’s Quandary (1874)

20. An Unrepentant Wife: A Divorce in Izmir (1878)

21. Turkish Music in the Synagogue: The Objections of a Rabbi [1881–1902]

22. Ambivalent Recollections of a Jewish Boarder in an Ottoman Imperial High School {1880s}

23. Jewish Women Visit a Dervish Lodge (1897)

24. A Ladino Journal Condemns Women’s Singing in Cafés on the Sabbath (1900)

25. “A Spanish Attitude”: Elias Canetti’s Childhood Reminiscences of Bulgaria {1905–1911}

26. “A Life Full of Drama and Danger”: Memories of an Ottoman Jewish Policeman (1911)

27. Abuses in the Regulation of Kosher Meat in Belgrade [1913]

28. Eyewitness to the Fire in Salonica [1917]

29. Memories of the Meldar: An Ottoman Jew’s Early Education (1920)

30. Can an Ashkenazi Man Join the Sephardi Community of Belgrade? [1923–1924]

31. Becoming Alberto: A Serbian Orthodox Man Converts to Judaism [1925]

Part II. Violence, War, and Regional Transformation

32. European Jews in Salonica Attempt to Evade the Jerusalem Tax [1749]

33. A Jewish Woman in Salonica Sews Uniforms for Ottoman Soldiers {1820s}

34. A Blood Libel in Rhodes (1840)

35. Ottoman and British Officials Spar over Protection of the Jews [ca. 1840]

36. A Kosher Kitchen in the Ottoman Imperial Medical School [1847]

37. A Muslim Intellectual on the Emancipation of Ottoman Non-Muslims {1856}

38. The Ottoman Chief Rabbi’s Ambivalent Response to the Proclamation of Jewish Equality {1856}

39. A Rabbi of Istanbul Condemns the Teaching of European Languages {1858}

40. A Cholera Epidemic Leads to Consular Litigation in Rusçuk [1865–1866]

41. When a Jew Can Work During the Sabbath: A Salonican Rabbi on War and Labor (1890/1891)

42. Eyewitness to Massacres of Armenians in Istanbul {1896}

43. A Controversy over the Chief Rabbinate of Jerusalem (1909)

44. A Coup in the Capital: The Ottoman Chief Rabbi Watches in Fear [1909]

45. Letters from Jewish Conscripts to the Ottoman Army (1910)

46. Responses to the Italian Occupation of Rhodes [1912]

47. A Zionist’s Proposal to Make Salonica an International City [1912–1913]

48. A Muslim-Jewish-Vlach Committee for Internationalizing Salonica [1913]

49. A Sephardi Jew in Marseille Claims Salonican Nationality During the First World War {1914–1918}

50. Enemy Aliens? Challenging a Wartime Classification in Britain [1915]

51. A Report on the Deportation of Armenians from Bursa [1915]

52. Traveling for War Relief: A Serbian Rabbi’s Journey [1919]

53. A Turkish Minister Shuns Jewish Company at the Lausanne Treaty Negotiations {1923}

54. A Salonican Jewish School Remains in Ruins Six Years After the 1917 Fire [1923]

55. A Muslim Journalist Calls upon Turkey’s Jews to Forgo Minority Rights (1925)

56. Dance Halls and Decadence in Istanbul: The Turkish Press Airs Concerns About Non-Muslims (1926)

57. “We Consider the Cemetery to Be a Temple”: Objections to Plans to Demolish a Sacred Site [1929]

58. Letters to the Editor Concerning the Anti-Jewish Riots in Salonica (1931)

59. Assimilation Fears in Giresun, Turkey [1941]

Part III. Political Movements and Ideologies

60. The Ottoman Chief Rabbi Urges His Coreligionists to Learn Turkish (1840)

61. In Praise of Intercommunal Cooperation: A “Rothschild of the East” on Progress and Tolerance (1874)

62. A Paean to the Sultan by the Jews of the Danube Province (1876)

63. Teaching “the Language of Our Glorious Empire to Jewish Girls”: A Petition to Open a School in Istanbul [1895]

64. The Fate of a Bulgarian Jewish Settlement in Palestine (1895–1896)

65. The Fez as a Sign of Patriotism: An Appeal for Imperial Allegiance During the Greco-Ottoman War (1897)

66. An Ottoman Jew Volunteers for the Greek Army (1897)

67. Salonican Jewish Students in Paris Respond to the Dreyfus Affair {1890s}

68. Should Sephardi Jews Reconcile with Spain? A Jewish Lawyer from Izmir Reflects [1904]

69. “Young Turks”: Muslim, Jewish, and Christian “Brothers” Shape a Revolutionary Movement {ca. 1900s}

70. An Ottoman Jewish Activist in Cairo Proposes Settling Jews in the Sudan (1906)

71. An Anti-Zionist Appeal from Istanbul (1909)

72. “Our Duties as Jews and as Ottomans”: An Ottoman Zionist Vision for the Future (1909)

73. A Debate on Zionism in the Ottoman Parliament [1911]

74. A Socialist Manifesto in Ladino (1911)

75. A European Jewish Feminist Decries the White Slave Trade in the Ottoman Empire [1911]

76. A Sephardi Suffragette? A Jewish Woman of Izmir Lectures on Feminism (1913)

77. A Socialist Resolution on the Jewish Question (1917)

78. Support for the Balfour Declaration in Salonica (1918)

79. “We Are a National Minority”: A Greek Jewish Manifesto Issued After the Paris Peace Conference (1919)

80. A Greek Orthodox Writer Promotes Rapprochement Between Jews and Christians in Greece (1925)

81. Jewish Women Join the Fascist Movement in Salonica (1925)

82. Is There a Need for a World Sephardi Federation? A Debate by Jewish Delegates in Vienna [1925]

83. The Sephardist Mission of a Rabbi from Yugoslavia (1926)

84. In Defense of the Arabic Alphabet: A Jewish Scholar’s Critique of the Romanization of Turkish (1927)

85. A Turkish Jew’s “Ten Commandments” for Turkification (1928)

86. Teaching Hebrew to the Arabs and Arabic to the Jews: Social Engineering in Palestine [1936]

87. Accusations of Discrimination Against Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews in Israel [1948]

88. A Leading Turkish Jewish Scholar Opposes Plans to Write Hebrew in the Latin Alphabet (1950)

Part IV. The Second World War and Its Aftermath

89. “Aryans of Mosaic Belief”: A Defense of the Sephardi Jews of Paris [1942]

90. A Turkish Jew Interned at Drancy Writes Home [ca. 1941–1942]

91. A Jewish Communal Leader from Sarajevo Asks for Intervention on Behalf of Camp Inmates [1942]

92. A Reaction to the “Wealth” Tax in Turkey [1943]

93. A Bulgarian Woman Stands Trial for Communist Activities [1943]

94. Tensions Between Jewish and Muslim Immigrants in Marseille [1943]

95. A Portuguese Consul Intercedes on Behalf of Jews in France [1943]

96. Tracks in the Snow: Recollections of a Macedonian Partisan {1941–1945}

97. Greek Authorities Collude with Nazi Officers to Raze