Sephardi Lives : A Documentary History, 1700-1950.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translation and Transliteration -- Sephardi Lives: An Introduction -- 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 Interpretys 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 Synagoge 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 Cemetary 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 the Jewish Cemetery in Salonica {1943} -- 98. Message in a Bottle: The Buried Manuscript of a Greek Jewish Inmate of Auschwitz [1944] -- 99. "The Road Was Covered with Corpses": Memories of a Death March {1944-1945} -- 100. Sephardi Survivors Settle in Portugal [1944] -- 101. A Turkish Jew in Ankara Reflects on the Extermination of European Jewry [1945] -- 102. Refugee Children Arrive in Palestine (1945) -- 103. A Greek Newspaper Prints the Holocaust Testimony of a Salonican Jewish Woman (1945) -- 104. Survival in Hiding: A Child's Tale {ca. 1940s} -- 105. The Aftermath of the War in Turkey [1945] -- 106. Your Dress on Another's Back: Wartime Memories of a Jewish Woman in Monastir {1943-1945} -- 107. The Trial of a Nazi Collaborator [1946] -- 108. In the DP Camps: An Early Interview with a Sephardi Holocaust Survivor [1946] -- 109. A Turkish Jewish Child Survivor Writes His "Godmother" in the United States [1948] -- Part V. Diasporic and Émigré Circles -- 110. Founding the Federation of Oriental Jews in New York City [1911] -- 111. Will the Old Sephardism Welcome the New? A Sermon to New York's Oldest Jewish Congregation (1912) -- 112. An Ottoman Jewish Immigrant in New York City Discovers Sign Language {1910s} -- 113. A Catholic Childhood in Havana {ca. 1910s} -- 114. A Sociological Study of Sephardi Immigrants in Cincinnati (1913).

115. Marriage and Migration: The Trials of a Jewish Immigrant in Cuba [1913].

This ground-breaking documentary history contains over 150 primary sources originally written in 15 languages by or about Sephardi Jews. Designed for use in the classroom, these documents offer students an intimate view of how Sephardim experienced the major regional and world events of the modern era. They also provide a vivid exploration of the quotidian lives of Sephardi women, men, boys, and girls in the Judeo-Spanish heartland of the Ottoman Balkans and Levant, as well as the émigré centers which Sephardim settled throughout the twentieth century, including Europe, North and South America, Africa, and Asia.

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