Avner Wishnitzer
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1531271 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Avner Wishnitzer |
| PRENOMES | Avner |
| SOBRENOME | Wishnitzer |
| ASSINATURA | WISHNITZER A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Tel Aviv University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6746-0552 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Rumour, Public Opinion and Print in Istanbul, 1780s–1830s
Drawing on Ottoman official correspondence, an informer’s report, and palace-sponsored tracts and chronicles, this article challenges the widely-held notion that print is inherently linked to diversification, liberalization, and Enlightenment ideals. Against the background of rising tensions between the authorities and the Janissary army, Ottoman officials viewed rumours and political discussions in coffeehouses and other social hubs as threateni…
Imagining Communities
Listening to stories was the most common leisure activity in early modern Ottoman coffeehouses. This article examines this practice as a form of guided, collective imagination and explores its political significance from the 1780s to the 1830s, a period of rising tensions and direct confrontations between the palace and the Janissary army. It argues that among the Janissaries, who gathered regularly in coffeehouses, story listening helped sustain…
Harun Küçük. Science without Leisure
Harun Küçük’s Science without Leisure is an important contribution not only because it is a rich and highly perceptive historical account of science and knowledge production in the seventeenth century but also because it offers a powerful meditation on the shaky present and the uncertain future of the academic world in the twenty-first century. Like early modern European science, Ottoman science drew on the Greek philosophical tradition, which as…
As Night Falls
In a world that is constantly awake, illuminated and exposed, there is much to gain from looking into the darkness of times past. This fascinating and vivid picture of nocturnal life in Middle Eastern cities shows that the night in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire created unique conditions for economic, criminal, political, devotional and leisurely pursuits that were hardly possible during the day. Offering the possibility of livelihood and …
As Night Falls
Kerosene Nights
Street lighting was first introduced into Ottoman cities in the second half of the nineteenth century. However, unlike in larger Ottoman cities, where coal gas was used, in Jerusalem it was kerosene that served as burning material, creating the distinct nocturnal reality that is here called the 'kerosene night'. This reality was the result and, simultaneously, one of the most glaring manifestations of Jerusalem's economic, administrative and infr…
A Taste for Home
Toufoul Abou-Hodeib's new book is strongly recommended to anybody interested in the late Ottoman period of Middle Eastern history, but also to scholars working on a wide range of fields, from urbanity to everyday life and from gender relations to collective identities under the shadow of colonialism. In my view, however, its most important contribution is that it situates all of these issues within a particular material context that was rapidly c…
Beneath the Mustache
Based on quantitative and qualitative analysis of visual representations and written texts, this study argues that officers, civil officials, and urban professionals who came of age in the late Hamidian era adopted the mustache as an expression of a generational identification and a related self-consciously modern masculinity that defined itself against the bearded, Hamidian order. After 1908, when the instigators of the revolution and their supp…
Eyes in the Dark
The limited scholarship on late Ottoman nightlife focused mainly on street lighting and described it as a solution to the problem of darkness, the end of a dark age. However, as Wishnitzer shows in this article, the nightlife scene of the late nineteenth century did not develop linearly from darkened to illuminated nightlife; rather, the two modes of nocturnal leisure coexisted. Likewise, the new ways of “seeing through darkness” that were devise…
A Global Middle East
“The start of the twentieth century ushered in a period of unprecedented change in the Middle East. These transformations, brought about by the emergence of the modern state system and an increasing interaction with a more globalized economy, irrevocably altered the political and social structures of the Middle East, even as the region itself left its mark on the processes of globalization themselves. As a result of these changes, there was an in…
Into the Dark
This article analyzes different traditions of nocturnal conviviality in 18th-century Istanbul and demonstrates their importance for social, political, and cultural life. The main argument is that the palace used the night to demonstrate its power in spectacles of light and to cultivate personal relations within the elite, both of which were crucial for a patrimonial government based on face-to-face interaction. Yet, it was exactly the reliance on…
Benjamin C. Fortna Learning to Read in the Late Ottoman Empire and the Early Turkish Republic. London
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A Comment on Mehmet Bengü Uluengin, “Secularizing Anatolia Tick by Tick
In his recent article, “Secularizing Anatolia Tick by Tick: Clock Towers in the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic,” Mehmet Bengü Uluengin makes a significant contribution to our understanding of late Ottoman and early republican clock towers. Uluengin shows that Ottoman clock towers carried “complex and seemingly contradictory layering of meanings” (p. 31). These buildings were at times associated with Christianity and with European power b…
Teaching time
The gradual implementation of new pedagogical methods in Ottoman schools during the second half of the nineteenth century brought about significant changes in the organization of teaching time. The first part of this paper focuses on some of these changes and demonstrates that the adoption of time-tabled instruction facilitated increased levels of surveillance and centralization, and a more efficient pedagogical process. The same temporal constru…
Into the Dark
This article analyzes different traditions of nocturnal conviviality in 18th-century Istanbul and demonstrates their importance for social, political, and cultural life. The main argument is that the palace used the night to demonstrate its power in spectacles of light and to cultivate personal relations within the elite, both of which were crucial for a patrimonial government based on face-to-face interaction. Yet, it was exactly the reliance on…
Beneath the Mustache
Based on quantitative and qualitative analysis of visual representations and written texts, this study argues that officers, civil officials, and urban professionals who came of age in the late Hamidian era adopted the mustache as an expression of a generational identification and a related self-consciously modern masculinity that defined itself against the bearded, Hamidian order. After 1908, when the instigators of the revolution and their supp…
Teaching time
The gradual implementation of new pedagogical methods in Ottoman schools during the second half of the nineteenth century brought about significant changes in the organization of teaching time. The first part of this paper focuses on some of these changes and demonstrates that the adoption of time-tabled instruction facilitated increased levels of surveillance and centralization, and a more efficient pedagogical process. The same temporal constru…
A Comment on Mehmet Bengü Uluengin, “Secularizing Anatolia Tick by Tick
In his recent article, “Secularizing Anatolia Tick by Tick: Clock Towers in the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic,” Mehmet Bengü Uluengin makes a significant contribution to our understanding of late Ottoman and early republican clock towers. Uluengin shows that Ottoman clock towers carried “complex and seemingly contradictory layering of meanings” (p. 31). These buildings were at times associated with Christianity and with European power b…
Teaching time
The gradual implementation of new pedagogical methods in Ottoman schools during the second half of the nineteenth century brought about significant changes in the organization of teaching time. The first part of this paper focuses on some of these changes and demonstrates that the adoption of time-tabled instruction facilitated increased levels of surveillance and centralization, and a more efficient pedagogical process. The same temporal constru…
Benjamin C. Fortna Learning to Read in the Late Ottoman Empire and the Early Turkish Republic. London
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Into the Dark
This article analyzes different traditions of nocturnal conviviality in 18th-century Istanbul and demonstrates their importance for social, political, and cultural life. The main argument is that the palace used the night to demonstrate its power in spectacles of light and to cultivate personal relations within the elite, both of which were crucial for a patrimonial government based on face-to-face interaction. Yet, it was exactly the reliance on…
A Global Middle East
“The start of the twentieth century ushered in a period of unprecedented change in the Middle East. These transformations, brought about by the emergence of the modern state system and an increasing interaction with a more globalized economy, irrevocably altered the political and social structures of the Middle East, even as the region itself left its mark on the processes of globalization themselves. As a result of these changes, there was an in…
Eyes in the Dark
The limited scholarship on late Ottoman nightlife focused mainly on street lighting and described it as a solution to the problem of darkness, the end of a dark age. However, as Wishnitzer shows in this article, the nightlife scene of the late nineteenth century did not develop linearly from darkened to illuminated nightlife; rather, the two modes of nocturnal leisure coexisted. Likewise, the new ways of “seeing through darkness” that were devise…
A Taste for Home
Toufoul Abou-Hodeib's new book is strongly recommended to anybody interested in the late Ottoman period of Middle Eastern history, but also to scholars working on a wide range of fields, from urbanity to everyday life and from gender relations to collective identities under the shadow of colonialism. In my view, however, its most important contribution is that it situates all of these issues within a particular material context that was rapidly c…
Beneath the Mustache
Based on quantitative and qualitative analysis of visual representations and written texts, this study argues that officers, civil officials, and urban professionals who came of age in the late Hamidian era adopted the mustache as an expression of a generational identification and a related self-consciously modern masculinity that defined itself against the bearded, Hamidian order. After 1908, when the instigators of the revolution and their supp…
Kerosene Nights
Street lighting was first introduced into Ottoman cities in the second half of the nineteenth century. However, unlike in larger Ottoman cities, where coal gas was used, in Jerusalem it was kerosene that served as burning material, creating the distinct nocturnal reality that is here called the 'kerosene night'. This reality was the result and, simultaneously, one of the most glaring manifestations of Jerusalem's economic, administrative and infr…
As Night Falls
In a world that is constantly awake, illuminated and exposed, there is much to gain from looking into the darkness of times past. This fascinating and vivid picture of nocturnal life in Middle Eastern cities shows that the night in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire created unique conditions for economic, criminal, political, devotional and leisurely pursuits that were hardly possible during the day. Offering the possibility of livelihood and …
As Night Falls
Harun Küçük. Science without Leisure
Harun Küçük’s Science without Leisure is an important contribution not only because it is a rich and highly perceptive historical account of science and knowledge production in the seventeenth century but also because it offers a powerful meditation on the shaky present and the uncertain future of the academic world in the twenty-first century. Like early modern European science, Ottoman science drew on the Greek philosophical tradition, which as…
Rumour, Public Opinion and Print in Istanbul, 1780s–1830s
Drawing on Ottoman official correspondence, an informer’s report, and palace-sponsored tracts and chronicles, this article challenges the widely-held notion that print is inherently linked to diversification, liberalization, and Enlightenment ideals. Against the background of rising tensions between the authorities and the Janissary army, Ottoman officials viewed rumours and political discussions in coffeehouses and other social hubs as threateni…
Imagining Communities
Listening to stories was the most common leisure activity in early modern Ottoman coffeehouses. This article examines this practice as a form of guided, collective imagination and explores its political significance from the 1780s to the 1830s, a period of rising tensions and direct confrontations between the palace and the Janissary army. It argues that among the Janissaries, who gathered regularly in coffeehouses, story listening helped sustain…
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