We tend to think of citizenship as something that is either offered
or denied by a state. Modern history teaches otherwise. Reimagining
citizenship as a legal spectrum along which individuals can travel,
Extraterritorial Dreams explores the history of Ottoman Jews who
sought, acquired, were denied or stripped of citizenship in Europe
in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries--as the
Ottoman Empire retracted and new states were born--in order to ask
larger questions about the nature of citizenship itself. Sarah
Abrevaya Stein traces the experiences of Mediterranean Jewish
women, men, and families who lived through a tumultuous series of
wars, border changes, genocides, and mass migrations, all in the
shadow of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the ascendance of
the modern passport regime. Moving across vast stretches of Europe,
the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas, she tells the intimate
stories of people struggling to find a legal place in a world ever
more divided by political boundaries and competing nationalist
sentiments. From a poor youth who reached France as a stowaway only
to be hunted by the Parisian police as a spy to a wealthy
Baghdadi-born man in Shanghai who willed his fortune to his
Eurasian Buddhist wife, Stein tells stories that illuminate the
intertwined nature of minority histories and global politics
through the turbulence of the modern era.
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