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

Sephardic Jews coming from the Ottoman Empire – one of the primary places their ancestors sought refuge after Spain – were ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

The first preparatory week of the seminar will immerse students in the history of the Ottoman Empire and of the Jews within it through readings and lectures. The remaining two weeks will be held on ...

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 ...