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

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 Armenians as role models because of their strong integration in Ottoman state and society and, later,the power of the local Christians became closer to that of the Jews, expanding. the possibilities for cooperation between the two minorities

Ancient history · Ottoman empire · Political science · Politics · State (computer science) · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Turkey's Politics and Society