{"product_id":"history-of-the-turkish-jews-and-sephardim","title":"History of the Turkish Jews and Sephardim","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book presents a\u003ci\u003eliving history\u003c\/i\u003e of the Turkish Jews. Despite numerous historical studies of this time period and its people, including\u003ci\u003eFarewell to Salonica\u003c\/i\u003e by Leon Sciaky, the works of the Bulgarian Sephardic author Canetti,\u003ci\u003eHistory of the Israelites of Salonica\u003c\/i\u003e by Joseph Nehama,\u003ci\u003eSalonica\u003c\/i\u003e by Mark Mazower, and the works of Abraham Galante, there are few living\u003ci\u003ehistories\u003c\/i\u003e. In\u003ci\u003eHistory of the Turkish Jews and Sephardim\u003c\/i\u003e author Elli Kohen attempts to combine the patience of the chronicler with the folksy humor of the storyteller, without undermining the presentation of the Sephardic Jews cultural history. It is a book of love for all the cultures that have come to coexist on the shores of the Bosphorus.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis comprehensive work explores the early Ottomon period, the Sephardi period, and concludes on the eve of the Sabbastian upheaval. Unique in tone and purpose,\u003ci\u003eHistory of the Turkish Jews and Sephardim\u003c\/i\u003e explores the cultural synthesis resulting from the interaction of the various elements co-existing near the shores of the Bosphorus. In style and breadth, this new work complements the existing literature on this historical period.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBelow are some of the events and stories chronicled in the \u003ci\u003eHistory of the Turkish Jew and Sephardim\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e- The mysterious sect of Judaizing Chiones\u003cbr\u003e-The enigmatic Torlak and the Anatolian syncretistic-communist revolution\u003cbr\u003e- The Jewish doctors of Sultan Mehmed II and Suleyman the Magnificent\u003cbr\u003e-The circular letter of the Sarfati calling the Ashkenazes to Turkey\u003cbr\u003e-The lives of the Iberian Jews in the Turkish Paradise\u003cbr\u003e-The rise of Joseph Nasi, the Duke of Naxos\u003cbr\u003e-The charter for the quasi-autonomous Jewish mini-state, Muselemlik, in Salonica\u003cbr\u003e-The monetary crisis of coinage (Jew money)\u003cbr\u003e-The rise and fall of Esther Kyra, Court Jewess\u003cbr\u003e-Murad IV and the Salonica textile crisis\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54257479090520,"sku":"9780761836018","price":62.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780761836018_9b66d781-8568-40cb-aa3f-0b29af13bff1.jpg?v=1769828461","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/history-of-the-turkish-jews-and-sephardim","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}