The Sephardim in the Ottoman Empire Book

	List of Illustrations
	List of Tables
	Preface
	A Note on Transliteration
	Abbreviations Used in the Notes
I	Jewish Settlement in the Ottoman Empire	1
	Modern Perceptions of the Origins of Ottoman Jewry	1
	The Realities of Jewish Settlement	3
	The Case of Salonica	6
	Istanbul	7
	Size and Significance of Jewish Immigration	11
II	The Ottoman-Jewish Symbiosis in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries	13
	Western Perceptions of the Ottoman Empire and of Ottoman Jewry	13
	The Ottoman Empire and Its Religious Minorities	14
	Jewish Attraction and Allegiance to the Ottoman State	19
	Ottoman Preference for Jewish Settlement	21
	Jewish Immigrant Contributions to Ottoman Expansion and Economic Development	23
	The Jewish Economic-Political Elites	28
	Joseph Nasi	32
	The Socioeconomic Position of the Jews	34
	Jewish Scholarship and Intellectual Life	37
	The Jews and Ottoman Society	40
III	The Structure of the Jewish Community	42
	The Ottoman Millet System	42
	Jewish Community Structures in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries	44
	The Question of the Chief Rabbinate in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries	53
	Jewish Acculturation and Consolidation of Community Structures (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)	59
IV	The Era of Standstill and Decline, 1580-1826	71
	Causes and Manifestations of Ottoman Decline	71
	The Impact of Ottoman Decline on the Jewish Communities in the Seventeenth Century	74
	The Messianic Movement of Shabbetai Tzevi	84
	Ottoman Jewry in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries	89
V	Ottoman Jewry in the Modern Era, 1826-1923	98
	Ottoman Reform and Modernization	98
	The Disintegration of the Ottoman Empire	101
	The Policies of Ottomanism	102
	Renewed Awareness of the Overlapping Ottoman and Jewish Interests and the Office of Haham Basi	105
	Jewish Participation in Government Service and Enrollment in State Schools	108
	The Modernization of Jewish Education and the Rise of a New Leadership	112
	Jewish Upward Mobility and the Resurgence of Christian Anti-Semitism	115
	Ottoman Jewry's Cultural Diversity and Growing Politicization: Young Turks and Zionists	116
	Jewish Immigration and Emigration	118
	Jewish Settlement in Palestine	119
	Jewish Losses, 1912-1923	120
	The "Best Years" of Ottoman Jewry in Modern Times	121
	Notes	125
	Chronology	151
	Selected Bibliography	165
	Appendix: Authors and Their Contributions to The Jews of the Ottoman Empire	177
	Index	179