Ottoman Jewry

Leadership, Charity, and Literacy

AvYaron Ayalon

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Del 12 i serien Christians and Jews in Muslim Societies

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Beskrivning

This book is a history of Ottoman Jews that challenges prevailing assumptions about Jews’ arrival in the empire, their relations with Muslims, and the role of religious and lay leaders. The book argues that rabbis played a less prominent role as communal and spiritual leaders than we have thought; and that the religious community was one of several frameworks within which Ottoman Jews operated. A focus on charitable and educational communal practices shows that with time Jews preferred to avoid the scrutiny of rabbis and the community, leading to private initiatives that undermined rabbinical and lay authority.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-12-19
Mått:155 x 235 x 23 mm
Vikt:577 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Christians and Jews in Muslim Societies
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004711969

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Yaron Ayalon, Ph.D. (2009), Princeton University, is Associate Professor at the College of Charleston. He has written many articles on Jewish and Ottoman history, and a monograph, Natural Disasters in the Ottoman Empire: Plague, Famine, and Other Misfortunes (Cambridge, 2014)

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PrefaceList of Figures and TablesAbbreviationsIntroduction1 Who Were Ottoman Jews?2 Ottoman Jewish History: the State of the Field3 What This Book Does Not Do4 Book Structure1 Ottoman Jewry, Origins and Growth1 One Overplayed Letter2 The Sephardim Arrive3 The Textile Industry and the Decline of Safed4 Ottoman Jews and the Environment2 Ottoman Jewry, Opportunities and Crises1 Demography and Economy2 The Environment, Again: Jewish Settlement Patterns and the Little Ice Age3 Izmir and Aleppo4 Hardships and Prophecy5 Expanding Opportunities in the Eighteenth Century3 Communal Leadership, Rabbis, and Others1 Rabbis in the Existing Scholarship2 Jews in Ottoman Society3 The Frankos Affair4 Toward a Model of Communal Leadership4 Poor Relief and Communal Authority1 Foundations of Jewish Charity2 Public Charity3 Semi-public Charity4 Private Charity5 Why Give?6 Charitable Societies and the Weakening of Communal Authority5 Education, Reading, and Rabbinical Authority1 Education2 Intellectual Circles3 The Inner Circle and Its Library4 The Value of Books5 The End of Knowledge MonopolyConclusionBibliographyIndex