Ottoman History and Society : : Jewish Sources / / Aryeh Shmuelevitz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Shmuelevitz, Aryeh,
• 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 (103 p.)

Aryeh Shmuelevitz study of Ottoman Jewish history takes the reader across the Ottoman Empire in time and geography while questioning the historical value of each source he consults.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- THE RESPONSA AS A SOURCE FOR THE HISTORY OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE -- CAPSALI AS A SOURCE FOR OTTOMAN HISTORY, 1450-1523 -- THE JEWS IN CAIRO AT THE TIME OF THE OTTOMAN CONQUEST: THE ACCOUNT OF CAPSALI -- JEWISH SOURCES FOR THE HISTORY AND SOCIETY OF GREECE AND ITS JEWISH COMMUNITIES IN THE 15TH AND 16TH CENTURIES -- THE BATTLE OF KHAN YUNIS DECEMBER 1516 -- MS POCOCKE NO. 31 AS A SOURCE FOR THE EVENTS IN ISTANBUL IN THE YEARS 1622-1624 -- TWO HEBREW-LANGUAGE WEEKLIES IN TURKEY: AN APPEAL TO REVIVE CONCEPT OF A NATIONAL CULTURE -- RELATIONS BETWEEN JEWS AND CHRISTIANS IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE: THE ARMENIAN CASE -- THE OTTOMAN CITY IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY - ASPECTS OF TAXATION AS REFLECTED IN JEWISH AND OTTOMAN SOURCES -- THE ARCHIVES OF TEL-AVIV-JAFFA AS A SOURCE FOR THE FINAL YEARS OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE IN PALESTINE