Becoming Ottomans : Sephardi Jews and imperial citizenship in the modern era /
Julia Phillips Cohen.
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, (c)2014.
- 1 online resource (xxi, 219 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
Lessons in imperial citizenship -- On the streets and in the synagogue : celebrating 1892 as Ottomans -- Battling neighbors : imperial allegiance and politicized violence -- Contest and conflict : Jewish Ottomanism in a constitutional regime.
This volume tells 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.