History of the Jewish community in Istanbul : : the formative years, 1453-1566 / / by Minna Rozen.

• Author: Rozen, Minna.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Ottoman Empire and its heritage ; v. 26; The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage 26.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (444 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This volume presents the transformation of the Greek-speaking, Romaniot Jewish community of Byzantine Constantinople into an Ottoman, ethnically diversified immigrant community, showing the influence of the Ottoman conquest on cultural and social values. New and existing sources illuminate a society that was haunted by the dislocation and bereavement of the expulsion from Spain but was nevertheless materialistic and pleasure-seeking, with money and pedigree as supreme values. The society constantly redefined its relationships and boundaries with its former Iberian world and with the Ottoman non-Jewish world around it. The book is important to the study of Istanbul, particularly its Ottoman Jewish community. The chapters on Family Formation and Social Patterns serve family historians studying the early modern period. This second edition contains several pages of corrections and additions.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Chapter One: The Ottoman Conquest of Constantinople and the End of the Byzantine Community -- Chapter Two: The Ottoman State and the Jews of Istanbul -- Chapter Three: Immigration and the Making of a Community -- Chapter Four: Demographics -- Chapter Five: Geographical History of the Community -- Chapter Six: Patterns of Organization -- Chapter Seven: Inter-Ethnic Encounters -- Chapter Eight: Patterns of Social Behavior: The Family -- Chapter Nine: Social Stratification: Wealth and Poverty -- Chapter Ten: Economic Life -- Chapter Eleven: Elite Culture and Popular Culture -- Chapter Twelve: Relations with Ottoman Society -- Documents -- Bibliography -- Index.