Borderland central : edirne and its Jewish community from the late Ottoman Empire to the early Turkish Republic, 1908-1934
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Located in the southeast corner of Europe, the city and province of Edirne, Turkey and the region of Eastern Thrace were once home to a large Jewish population that had thrived--more often than not--under Ottoman administration. This dissertation follows these Jews from the final years of the Ottoman Empire (1908-1922) through the first decade of the Turkish Republic (1923-1934), a period that started with the local Jewish population hitting its all-time demographic peak but ended with anti-Jewish violence that spelled the end of the community, for all intents and purposes. Focusing on the process by which this zone became a borderland (with Greece and Bulgaria) and the implications of that development, this dissertation argues that to survive in a contested region, the Jews of Edirne successfully employed various strategies in ways that challenge historical narratives regarding the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the development of nationalism in Southeastern Europe, the Jewish experience in late-imperial borderlands, and the rise of Zionism. Furthermore, this dissertation argues that these same strategies—-and others—-ultimately failed Edirne Jews in the context of the Turkish Republic, due to general characteristics of the modern nation-state, specific traits of the borderland, and the intersection of these two categories.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2022; ©2022 |
| Publication date | 2022; 2022 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Daniels, Jacob Max |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Rodrigue, Aron |
| Thesis advisor | Rodrigue, Aron |
| Thesis advisor | Yaycioglu, Ali |
| Thesis advisor | Zipperstein, Steven J, 1950- |
| Degree committee member | Yaycioglu, Ali |
| Degree committee member | Zipperstein, Steven J, 1950- |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of History |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Jacob Daniels. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of History. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2022. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/cc829xw0433 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2022 by Jacob Max Daniels
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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