دانلود کتاب Ottoman Jewry: Leadership, Charity, and Literacy

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Front Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
Figures and Tables
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Who Were Ottoman Jews?
2 Ottoman Jewish History: the State of the Field
3 What This Book Does Not Do
4 Book Structure
1
Ottoman Jewry, Origins and Growth
1 One Overplayed Letter
2 The Sephardim Arrive
3 The Textile Industry and the Decline of Safed
4 Ottoman Jews and the Environment
2
Ottoman Jewry, Opportunities and Crises
1 Demography and Economy
2 The Environment, Again: Jewish Settlement Patterns and the Little Ice Age
3 Izmir and Aleppo
4 Hardships and Prophecy
5 Expanding Opportunities in the Eighteenth Century
3
Communal Leadership, Rabbis, and Others
1 Rabbis in the Existing Scholarship
2 Jews in Ottoman Society
3 The Frankos Affair
4 Toward a Model of Communal Leadership
4
Poor Relief and Communal Authority
1 Foundations of Jewish Charity
2 Public Charity
3 Semi-public Charity
4 Private Charity
5 Why Give?
6 Charitable Societies and the Weakening of Communal Authority
5
Education, Reading, and Rabbinical Authority
1 Education
2 Intellectual Circles
3 The Inner Circle and Its Library
4 The Value of Books
5 The End of Knowledge Monopoly
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Back Cover