Once upon a Time Jews Lived in Kirklareli : : The Story of the Adato Family, 1800-1934 / / Erol Haker.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Haker, Erol,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Analecta Isisiana: Ottoman and Turkish Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (321 p.)

Erol Haker recounts the history of the Sephardic Jewish Adoto family, which originally hails from the town of Kirklareli. This is one of the few books to describe the Jewish population of Turkish Thrace.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Introduction -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Dedication -- CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 2. THE ADATOS OF KIRKLARELI THE FIRST GENERATIONS -- CHAPTER 3. MENAHEM ADATO (EL MORAVI) RAISING A FAMILY -- CHAPTER 4. MENAHEM ADATO (EL MORAVI) MAKING A LIVING -- CHAPTER 5. MENAHEM ADATO (EL MORAVI) HIS INVOLVEMENT IN COMMUNITY LIFE -- CHAPTER 6. MENAHEM ADATO (EL MORAVI) HOME AND FAMILY -- CHAPTER 7. MENAHEM ADATO (EL MORAVI), HIS RELIGION, THE CELEBRATION OF THE SABBATH -- CHAPTER 8. MENAHEM ADATO (EL MORAVI), CELEBRATION OF HOLIDAYS, HIS LAST YEARS IN JERUSALEM -- CHAPTER 9. LIA ADATO, HIS YEARS THROUGH YOUNG ADULTHOOD -- CHAPTER 10. LIA ADATO, WORLD WAR ONE YEARS -- CHAPTER 11. LIA ADATO, LIFE IN THE YEARS UNDER GREEK OCCUPATION -- CHAPTER 12. LIA ADATO LIFE IN THE NEW TURKISH REPUBLIC -- CHAPTER 13. MENAHEM, BARZILAI, AND SULTANA ADATO AS TEENAGERS AND YOUNG ADULTS -- CHAPTER 14. THE CHIPRUT FAMILY -- CHAPTER 15. THE SALINAS FAMILY -- CHAPTER 16. THE JULY 1934 ANTI-JEWISH RIOTS OF EASTERN THRACE AS THEY OCCURRED IN KIRKLARELI -- CHAPTER 17. LIA ADATO, AN EPILOGUE -- CHAPTER 18. NUPTIALS -- Appendix 1: The Regional, Township, and Community Background -- Appendix 2: Biographical Notes -- Bibliography