| Extraterritorial Dreams: European Citizenship, Sephardi Jews, and the Ottoman Twentieth Century Contributor(s): Abrevaya Stein, Sarah (Author) |
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ISBN: 022636819X ISBN-13: 9780226368191 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $98.01 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Jewish - General - History | Europe - General - History | Middle East - Turkey & Ottoman Empire |
| Dewey: 940.308 |
| LCCN: 2015043311 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.9" W x 9.1" (1.05 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: We tend to think of citizenship as something that is either offered or denied by a state. Modern history teaches otherwise. Reimagining citizenship as a legal spectrum along which individuals can travel, Extraterritorial Dreams explores the history of Ottoman Jews who sought, acquired, were denied or stripped of citizenship in Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries--as the Ottoman Empire retracted and new states were born--in order to ask larger questions about the nature of citizenship itself. Sarah Abrevaya Stein traces the experiences of Mediterranean Jewish women, men, and families who lived through a tumultuous series of wars, border changes, genocides, and mass migrations, all in the shadow of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the ascendance of the modern passport regime. Moving across vast stretches of Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas, she tells the intimate stories of people struggling to find a legal place in a world ever more divided by political boundaries and competing nationalist sentiments. From a poor youth who reached France as a stowaway only to be hunted by the Parisian police as a spy to a wealthy Baghdadi-born man in Shanghai who willed his fortune to his Eurasian Buddhist wife, Stein tells stories that illuminate the intertwined nature of minority histories and global politics through the turbulence of the modern era. |
Contributor Bio(s): Abrevaya Stein, Sarah: - Sarah Abrevaya Stein is professor of history and the Maurice Amado Chair in Sephardic Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce and Making Jews Modern: The Yiddish and Ladino Press in the Russian and Ottoman Empires, and coeditor of A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica: The Ladino Memoir of Sa'adi Besalel a-Levi and Sephardi Lives: a documentary history, 1700-1950. |