1840 Rhodes Blood Libel - Ottoman Jews At the Dawn of the Tanzimat Era

Based on newly discovered Ottoman and Jewish sources and using a legal lens on Levantine practices, The 1840 Rhodes Blood Libel argues that the acquittal of Rhodian Jews following a ritual murder charge is only adequately understood in the context of the Tanzimat and the Sublime Porte's foreign relations, and in the context of a shared Ottoman and Jewish history.

About the author

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).

Product details

• Authors: Olga Borovaya, Borovaya Olga
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2024
• EAN: 9781805396864
• ISBN: 978-1-80539-686-4
• No. of pages: 270
• Series: Mediterranean Counterpoints
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Ottoman Empire, LAW / Legal History, Legal History, Relating to Jewish people and groups, History: 18th/19th Century; Jewish Studies