(JTA) — In the late 1800s, the Ottoman Empire was looking to conscript men into its army, including the several thousand young Jewish ones who were living in the city of Baghdad. The Jewish ...
With the exception of Binyamin Netanyahu, perhaps Golda Meir and Yitzhak Rabin, Israel’s prime ministers, of all political ...
During WWII, Albania defied the Nazis, sheltering Jews and preserving its tradition of hospitality. Discover how this ...
Sephardic Jews coming from the Ottoman Empire – one of the primary places their ancestors sought refuge after Spain – were ...
Their positive impact on trade convinced the land’s Ottoman rulers to welcome more Jews. When Spain and Portugal expelled their Jews during the 15th and 16th centuries, tens of thousands of ...
Marc David Baer, Honored by the Glory of Islam: Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman Europe (Oxford 2008); Marc David Baer, The Dönme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks ...
Marc David Baer, Honored by the Glory of Islam: Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman Europe (Oxford 2008); Marc David Baer, The Dönme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks ...
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