Tamir Karkason

Biographic Data

ID2360224
NAMETamir Karkason
GIVEN NAMESTamir
FAMILY NAMEKarkason
SIGNATUREKARKASON T
AFFILIATIONSMartin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
ORCID0000-0001-6874-1954
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Introduction

    Ottfried Fraisse, Tamir Karkason et al.ARTICLEJewish Culture and History2025

  • An Ambivalent Coexistence

    Open AccessTamir KarkasonARTICLEJewish History2024

    This article discusses the relations between Jews and Christians in Edirne during the late Ottoman period. At the time, approximately half the city’s inhabitants were Greeks, and at least ten percent were Jews. The Jewish quarter of the city was surrounded by areas with a Greek majority, while a few Armenians also lived alongside the Greeks and Jews. Drawing on diverse sources from the Ladino, Hebrew, French, English, and Greek press, I argue tha…

  • Reflections on Jews and Christians between the Late Ottoman State and the Republic of Turkey

    Tamir KarkasonARTICLEThe Jewish Quarterly Review2024

    This essay offers a framework for understanding the change that occurred in the contacts between Jews and Christians between the latter decades of the Ottoman Empire and the early decades of the Turkish nation-state. Through analysis of a legal translation from Ottoman Turkish into Ladino from the early 1880s and a journal article in Ladino on a shared Jewish-Greek sports activity in the late 1940s, it shows how Jewish elites perceived Greeks and…

  • Repositioning Ethnicity and Transnationalism

    Open AccessAviad Moreno, Tamir KarkasonARTICLESocieties2023References: 13

    The methods that communities exploit to cope with national hegemonies that dispossess and exclude them have attracted the interest of migration scholars who emphasize the development of transnational strategies as community-building vehicles. Some scholars focus on migrant communities, whereas other studies analyze the “stayers”—those who remain in the countries of origin—in their analyses of the impacts of transnational trends on these groups. Y…

  • A transnational millet in the Jewish state

    Open AccessAviad Moreno, Tamir KarkasonARTICLENations and Nationalism2023Cited by: 2References: 35

    Between 1948 and 1956, 36,302 Jews migrated from Turkey to Israel, forming the largest Turkish diaspora hub at that time. Drawing on the nine newspapers published by Turkish Jews in Israel in their vernacular, Ladino (Judeo‐Spanish), this article sheds light on the complex nature of the migrants' transnational affinity to the Turkish Republic and on how it coexisted with their Jewish nationalism. In addition to situating this development within t…

  • Maskilic families in the Ottoman Empire

    Tamir KarkasonARTICLEJournal of Jewish Studies2023

    This article analyses the character of Maskilic families in the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century. The Ottomans regarded the family as a cornerstone of society and a tool for maintaining social harmony and preventing disorder. Accordingly, an analysis of the Maskilic family forms an important component in prosopographical research into the circle of Maskilim. The Ottoman Maskilim came from the heart of the 'traditional' rabbinical elite, a…

  • Between Two Poles

    Tamir KarkasonARTICLEZutot2021

    Barukh Mitrani was an Ottoman maskil who wandered between the Balkans, Istanbul and Palestine. While living in Edirne, Mitrani established his first periodical, Carmi (Pressburg 1881). Carmi ’s issues were an ongoing maskilic sermon, drawing on a deep acquaintance with the Jewish bookshelf. This paper examines selections from the fifth article in Carmi , ‘Our Nationhood.’ Influenced by the moderate Haskalah, Mitrani idealized a ‘Golden Mean,’ whi…