The Second Book in the Fascinating Memoir from Touro University Press Chronicles Shtetl Life as Never Described Before ...

With the exception of Binyamin Netanyahu, perhaps Golda Meir and Yitzhak Rabin, Israel’s prime ministers, of all political ...

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 ...

They may have been second-class citizens, but Jewish and Christian communities in the Ottoman Empire did have a degree of autonomy from the central government. The Ottoman Empire’s treatment of ...

For Turkish Jews, preserving Ladino is a historical obligation, says Sami Aker, a journalist at Salom. He notes that Ladino was developed in the Ottoman Empire by Sephardic Jews who arrived as ...

The first preparatory week of the seminar will immerse students in the history of the Ottoman Empire and of the Jews within it through readings and lectures. The remaining two weeks will be held on ...