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Becoming Ottomans - Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern Era (Hardcover)
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Becoming Ottomans - Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern Era (Hardcover)
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The Ottoman-Jewish story has long been told as a romance between
Jews and the empire. The prevailing view is that Ottoman Jews were
protected and privileged by imperial policies and in return offered
their unflagging devotion to the imperial government over many
centuries. In this book, Julia Phillips Cohen offers a corrective,
arguing that Jewish leaders who promoted this vision were doing so
in response to a series of reforms enacted by the
nineteenth-century Ottoman state: the new equality they gained came
with a new set of expectations. Ottoman subjects were suddenly to
become imperial citizens, to consider their neighbors as brothers
and their empire as a homeland. Becoming Ottomans is the first book
to tell the story of Jewish political integration into a modern
Islamic empire. It begins with the process set in motion by the
imperial state reforms known as the Tanzimat, which spanned the
years 1839-1876 and legally emancipated the non-Muslims of the
empire. Four decades later the situation was difficult to
recognize. By the close of the nineteenth century, Ottoman Muslims
and Jews alike regularly referred to Jews as a model community, or
millet - as a group whose leaders and members knew how to serve
their state and were deeply engaged in Ottoman politics. The
struggles of different Jewish individuals and groups to define the
public face of their communities is underscored in their responses
to a series of important historical events. Charting the dramatic
reversal of Jews in the empire over a half-century, Becoming
Ottomans offers new perspectives for understanding Jewish
encounters with modernity and citizenship in a centralizing,
modernizing Islamic state in an imperial, multi-faith landscape.
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