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The 1840 Rhodes Blood Libel - Olga Borovaya

The 1840 Rhodes Blood Libel

Ottoman Jews at the Dawn of the Tanzimat Era

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Buch | Hardcover
270 Seiten
2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-686-4 (ISBN)
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The Rhodes blood libel of 1840, an outbreak of anti-Jewish violence, was initiated by the island’s governor in collusion with Levantine merchants, who charged the local Jewish community with murdering a Christian boy for ritual purposes. An episode in the shared histories of Ottomans and Jews, it was forgotten by the former and, even if remembered, misunderstood by the latter. The 1840 Rhodes Blood Libel aims to restore the place of this event in Sephardi and Ottoman history.



Based on newly discovered Ottoman and Jewish sources it argues that the acquittal of Rhodian Jews is adequately understood only in the context of the Tanzimat and the Sublime Porte’s foreign relations. Contrary to the common view that Ottoman Jews did not experience the impact of the Tanzimat reforms until the mid-1850s, this study shows that their effects were felt as early as 1840. Furthermore, this book offers a window onto life and intercommunal relations in the Eastern Mediterranean during the late Ottoman era.

Olga Borovaya is an independent scholar who has taught Sephardi history and Ladino literature at Stanford, Johns Hopkins, and other US universities. She is the author of Modern Ladino Culture: Press, Belles Lettres, and Theater in the Late Ottoman Empire (Indiana University Press, 2011), which was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, and The Beginnings of Ladino Literature: Moses Almosnino and His Readers (Indiana University Press, 2017).

Acknowledgments



Note on Translations and Transcriptions



Introduction



Part I: 1840: Events and Analysis



Chapter 1. Rhodes: The Island and Its Inhabitants

Chapter 2. The Crisis, Rhodes, February–May

Chapter 3. The Rhodes Affair: An Episode in the History of Ottoman Reforms



Part II: 1840-1893: Voices from Rhodes



Chapter 4. Immediate Reactions: The Prose Accounts

Chapter 5. From Collective Memory to History: The Songs and the Notes



Conclusion



Appendix I

Appendix II

Appendix III

Appendix IV



Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Mediterranean Counterpoints
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Militärgeschichte
Recht / Steuern Rechtsgeschichte
ISBN-10 1-80539-686-2 / 1805396862
ISBN-13 978-1-80539-686-4 / 9781805396864
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