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Becoming Ottomans Sephardi Jews And Imperial Citizenship In The Modern Era

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Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Published
2014
  • Jews, turkey
  • Jews, identity
  • Sephardim
  • Turkey, politics and government
  • Middle east, ethnic relations
  • Jews
  • History
  • Identity

Becoming Ottomans is the first book to tell the story of Jewish political integration into a modern Islamic empire. It follows the efforts of Sephardi Jews from Salonica to Izmir to Istanbul to become citizens of their state during the final half century of the Ottoman Empire's existence.