"Palestine" was a poor backwater of little significance; Jerusalem was an old, decrepit city that no one (except Jews) cared ...

(JTA) — In the late 1800s, the Ottoman Empire was looking to conscript men into its army, including the several thousand young Jewish ones who were living in the city of Baghdad. The Jewish ...

The Ottoman Empire’s first printing shop was established in 1493 by David and Samuel ibn Nahmias of Spain. The immigrants’ arrival also transformed Istanbul into one of the Jewish world’s ...

Called Sephardi or Sephardic Jews, these people settled in North Africa, the Ottoman Empire, France, Italy and the Balkans, as well as Britain and the Netherlands. At times, the term “Sephardi ...

Christians and Jews in Greece and Turkey; the legacy of the Ottoman Empire in comparative perspective; and the Ottoman past in Turkish historical fiction. 20 hours of seminars in the MT. 20 hours of ...

ISTANBUL — Turkey’s Jewish community is mourning after Isak ... by which the chief rabbis of both the modern Turkish Republic and the Ottoman empire have been known since the position was ...

The Ottoman Empire (1299-1923) was one of the longest lasting and most ... the Ottoman-Safavid-Habsburg struggle for supremacy; Ottoman Jews: model minority?; sixteenth- and seventeenth-century ...