Becoming Ottomans: Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern Era
De (autor) Julia Phillips Cohenen Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 Apr 2017
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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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780190610708
ISBN-10: 0190610700
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 171 x 234 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării: New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0190610700
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 171 x 234 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării: New York, United States
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Recenzii
Becoming
Ottomans
is
a
very
important
contribution
not
only
to
the
historiography
of
Ottoman
Jews
but
also
to
nineteenth-century
social
and
cultural
history.
The
book
-
through
its
emphasis
on
civic
agency
rather
than
on
state
policy,
on
provinces
rather
than
on
the
capital,
and
on
a
'view
from
below'
that
looks
up
from
streets,
fairs,
and
local
celebrations
rather
than
on
official
discourses
-
is
extremely
useful
to
every
scholar
interested
in
the
dynamicsof
nineteenth-century
Ottoman
society
in
general
and
in
the
history
of
Ottoman
Jews
in
particular.
It
provides
a
basis
for
further
debates
on
the
ever-contested
history
of
Christians
and
Jews
in
the
Ottoman
Empire.
With Becoming Ottomans, Julia Phillips Cohen breaks new ground in her analysis of the Sephardi communities of Salonica, Istanbul, and Izmir, and of the complex and changing forces that tested their allegiance to imperial citizenship and nationality (Ottomanism). She challenges the long-held master narrative that Ottomanism was an abstract ideology that managed to gain a foothold only among the Ottoman elite.... If Becoming Ottomans was only anexamination of the Sephardi response to Ottoman citizenship and the imperial national project, it would be a tremendous contribution to the field. But the book touches on many other subjects under debate among Ottoman historians.... The book is engaging, accessible, and an important contribution to late Ottoman history.
Thoroughly researched and documented...Becoming Ottomans is a major contribution to the study of the Jewish communities during the late Ottoman period and it provides scholars of other Ottoman non-Muslim communities with excellent grounding with which to analyze similar developments among the larger Ottoman Armenian and Greek communities.
In this engaging book, Julia Philips Cohen reconstructs the process by which Ottoman Sephardic Jews learned the language of patriotism in the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as part of a broader process of the emergence of a discourse of Ottoman imperial citizenship that affected Ottoman society in its entirety.... Becoming Ottomans should be commended for its original and sophisticated treatment of the 'special relationship'narrative on the basis of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century experiences.... An original contribution to scholarly writing on the history of Ottoman Jews, to the study of imperial citizenship, and to the literature on the passage of the Ottoman Empire to modernity.
Cohen's portrayal of Jewish Ottomanism is rich in nuance. We learn about the official discourse of Ottoman patriotism but also about dissenting voices and resistance; we learn about the complex negotiation of imperial citizenship in competition with other ethno-religious groups, such as the Armenians or the Greeks; and we get a sense of the many forms that Jewish Ottomanism could take in an increasingly politicized Jewish millet ... . Becoming Ottomansrepresents an important intervention that allows not only a better understanding of the history of the Sephardic Jews in the Ottoman Empire, but of the multifaceted nature of the Jewish encounter with modernity more generally ... .Cohen's book is as much a contribution to modern Jewish history as it is to thehistory of the Ottoman Empire.
Cohen has produced an insightful study on the embrace of Ottoman citizenship by the Sephardic community. ... Highly recommended.
It contributes significantly to our appreciation of the complex texture of a long-gone society.
Becoming Ottomans is a remarkable account of the means Sephardi Jews developed to represent themselves as loyal Ottomans and to transform themselves into a model community during the last century of the empire. Original and marvelously written, the book reveals the complexities and the setbacks, as well as the successes, of this effort.
Based in nineteenth-century Salonica, Istanbul, and Izmir, Julia Phillips Cohen's book tells the story of how Jews were swept up in the Ottoman Empire's projects of imperial reform, war, and ethnic rivalries. They also carved out a place for themselves in politics and society, invented traditions commemorating their arrival in the empire 400 years prior, showcased the empire at the Chicago World's Fair, feted the sultan on his royal tour, and mourned the empire'sdemise after their arrival in New York. Fascinating, thoroughly researched, and engagingly written, Becoming Ottomans will forever change how we understand the Ottoman Empire and its Jews.
Becoming Ottomans offers a fresh argument on strategies of imperial belonging, showing how Sephardi Jews put themselves forward as exemplary citizens, a kind of model minority for the late Ottoman Empire. In doing so, it addresses questions about the complexities of co-existence and provides insight on the unique Ottoman realm of inter-confessional relations as much as about the dynamics within the Sephardi Jewish communities of the empire.
If Ottoman historians, Middle Eastern historians, and historians of modern Jewry agree on one thing, it is that Ottoman Jews and the Ottoman state enjoyed a 'special relationship' of solicitude on the part of the state and of unalloyed patriotism on the part of the Jews. Julia Phillips Cohen's Becoming Ottomans draws on an impressively multilingual archive to show that this vaunted special relationship was not a pre-political fact but a fairly late politicalinvention created by the late nineteenth century Ottoman Jewish elite. Cohen demonstrates that this political invention demanded constant maintenance through ritual and discursive evocation, and that it was subjected to deepening strain in the last decades of the empire's existence as Jews grappledsimultaneously with nationalist secessions and incipient Muslim Turkish counternationalism.
Becoming Ottomans enhances our perspective
With Becoming Ottomans, Julia Phillips Cohen breaks new ground in her analysis of the Sephardi communities of Salonica, Istanbul, and Izmir, and of the complex and changing forces that tested their allegiance to imperial citizenship and nationality (Ottomanism). She challenges the long-held master narrative that Ottomanism was an abstract ideology that managed to gain a foothold only among the Ottoman elite.... If Becoming Ottomans was only anexamination of the Sephardi response to Ottoman citizenship and the imperial national project, it would be a tremendous contribution to the field. But the book touches on many other subjects under debate among Ottoman historians.... The book is engaging, accessible, and an important contribution to late Ottoman history.
Thoroughly researched and documented...Becoming Ottomans is a major contribution to the study of the Jewish communities during the late Ottoman period and it provides scholars of other Ottoman non-Muslim communities with excellent grounding with which to analyze similar developments among the larger Ottoman Armenian and Greek communities.
In this engaging book, Julia Philips Cohen reconstructs the process by which Ottoman Sephardic Jews learned the language of patriotism in the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as part of a broader process of the emergence of a discourse of Ottoman imperial citizenship that affected Ottoman society in its entirety.... Becoming Ottomans should be commended for its original and sophisticated treatment of the 'special relationship'narrative on the basis of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century experiences.... An original contribution to scholarly writing on the history of Ottoman Jews, to the study of imperial citizenship, and to the literature on the passage of the Ottoman Empire to modernity.
Cohen's portrayal of Jewish Ottomanism is rich in nuance. We learn about the official discourse of Ottoman patriotism but also about dissenting voices and resistance; we learn about the complex negotiation of imperial citizenship in competition with other ethno-religious groups, such as the Armenians or the Greeks; and we get a sense of the many forms that Jewish Ottomanism could take in an increasingly politicized Jewish millet ... . Becoming Ottomansrepresents an important intervention that allows not only a better understanding of the history of the Sephardic Jews in the Ottoman Empire, but of the multifaceted nature of the Jewish encounter with modernity more generally ... .Cohen's book is as much a contribution to modern Jewish history as it is to thehistory of the Ottoman Empire.
Cohen has produced an insightful study on the embrace of Ottoman citizenship by the Sephardic community. ... Highly recommended.
It contributes significantly to our appreciation of the complex texture of a long-gone society.
Becoming Ottomans is a remarkable account of the means Sephardi Jews developed to represent themselves as loyal Ottomans and to transform themselves into a model community during the last century of the empire. Original and marvelously written, the book reveals the complexities and the setbacks, as well as the successes, of this effort.
Based in nineteenth-century Salonica, Istanbul, and Izmir, Julia Phillips Cohen's book tells the story of how Jews were swept up in the Ottoman Empire's projects of imperial reform, war, and ethnic rivalries. They also carved out a place for themselves in politics and society, invented traditions commemorating their arrival in the empire 400 years prior, showcased the empire at the Chicago World's Fair, feted the sultan on his royal tour, and mourned the empire'sdemise after their arrival in New York. Fascinating, thoroughly researched, and engagingly written, Becoming Ottomans will forever change how we understand the Ottoman Empire and its Jews.
Becoming Ottomans offers a fresh argument on strategies of imperial belonging, showing how Sephardi Jews put themselves forward as exemplary citizens, a kind of model minority for the late Ottoman Empire. In doing so, it addresses questions about the complexities of co-existence and provides insight on the unique Ottoman realm of inter-confessional relations as much as about the dynamics within the Sephardi Jewish communities of the empire.
If Ottoman historians, Middle Eastern historians, and historians of modern Jewry agree on one thing, it is that Ottoman Jews and the Ottoman state enjoyed a 'special relationship' of solicitude on the part of the state and of unalloyed patriotism on the part of the Jews. Julia Phillips Cohen's Becoming Ottomans draws on an impressively multilingual archive to show that this vaunted special relationship was not a pre-political fact but a fairly late politicalinvention created by the late nineteenth century Ottoman Jewish elite. Cohen demonstrates that this political invention demanded constant maintenance through ritual and discursive evocation, and that it was subjected to deepening strain in the last decades of the empire's existence as Jews grappledsimultaneously with nationalist secessions and incipient Muslim Turkish counternationalism.
Becoming Ottomans enhances our perspective
Notă biografică
Julia
Phillips
Cohen
is
Associate
Professor
of
History
and
Jewish
Studies
at
Vanderbilt
University.