So much has changed, yet so much of it seems so familiar... The crisis demonstrated that despite progress toward emancipation ...

Once home to a thriving Jewish majority, Thessaloniki holds fragments of a lost world. One traveller's journey to find them ...

many Sephardic Jews were left with few places to go. Many other countries in Europe had similar anti-Semitic bans. However, across the sea, North Africa and the Ottoman Empire's relatively lax ...

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 ...

Add to that the public presence of diverse religions and it sounds like 2025, but this was life in the Ottoman Empire 200 years ago. Yet this seeming tolerance of non-Muslim faiths was in fact ...

The Ottoman Empire (1299-1923) was one of the longest lasting and most ... the Ottoman-Safavid-Habsburg struggle for supremacy; Ottoman Jews: model minority?; sixteenth- and seventeenth-century ...

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 ...