Anna Contadini, Routledge, 2013 This volume brings together some of the latest research on the cultural, intellectual, and commercial interactions during the Renaissance between Western Europe and the Middle East, with particular reference to the Ottoman Empire. Recent scholarship has…
Michael M. Laskier, State University of New York Press, 1983 The Alliance Israélite Universelle—an international organization representing a community of over 240,000 Jews—was founded in Paris in 1860 to work for the “moral progress” of Jews around the world. AIU…
The Quincentennial Papers, Sepher-Hermon Press, Inc, 1996 Studies on Turkish-Jewish History: Political and Social Relations, Literature and Linguistics. The Quincentennial Papers (1996), edited by David Fintz Altabé, Erhan Atay, and Israel J. Katz, is a collection of scholarly papers marking the 500th anniversary of…
Institute du Monde Arabe, Gallimard, 2021 Centuries before the beginning of the Christian era, Jews lived around the Mediterranean and along the banks of the Euphrates. From the centuries preceding the advent of Islam to the early dynasties of the…
Edited by Jacques Roumani, Judith Roumani, David Meghnagi, Syracuse University Press, 2018 In June 2017, the Jews of Libya commemorated the jubilee of their complete exodus from this North African land in 1967, which began with a mass migration to…
Bernard Lewis, Penguin Random House Publishing Group, 2000 This book is a delight, a treasury of stories drawn from letters, diaries and histories, but also from unpublished archives and previously untranslated accounts. Diplomats and interpreters, slaves, soldiers, pilgrims and missionaries,…
Ronald L. Nettler, Routledge / Taylor & Francis Group, 1998 This book brings together contributions which examine various Islamic and selected Jewish writings of this kind, analyzing their ideas, methods, sources and meanings, relating them to the new historical and…
Nancy Bisaha, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006 As the Ottoman Empire advanced westward from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries, humanists responded on a grand scale, leaving behind a large body of fascinating yet understudied works. These compositions included Crusade…
Daniel G. König, Oxford University Press, 2015 The Emergence of Latin-Christian Europe provides an insight into how the Arabic-Islamic world perceived medieval Western Europe in an age that is usually associated with the rise and expansion of Islam, the Spanish…
Esther Juhasz, The Israel Museum, 1990 ‘Sephardic Jews in the Ottoman Empire: Aspects of Material Culture’ is an exhibition based book birthed from Israel Museum; a project from Julie and Leo Forchheimer Department of Jewish Ethnography. This book is concerned…