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 ...

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

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 ...

Trump’s proposal for the U.S. to take “ownership” over Gaza and displace Palestinians added to uncertainty over the fate of ...

By the beginning of the first century AD, Jews had spread from their homeland in Judaea across the Mediterranean and there were major Jewish communities in Syria, Egypt, and Greece. Practicing a ...

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 ...

By the beginning of the first century AD, Jews had spread from their homeland in Judaea across the Mediterranean and there were major Jewish communities in Syria, Egypt, and Greece. Practicing a ...