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URL:https://www.amyisrael.org/events/traders-translators-and-tax-collector
 s-jews-and-the-economic-life-of-the-ottoman-empire-facilitated-by-howard-s
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SUMMARY:"Traders\, Translators and Tax Collectors: Jews and the Economic Li
 fe of the Ottoman Empire" facilitated by Howard Schickler
DESCRIPTION:Via Zoom\n\nHoward Schickler will be hosting the next proposed 
 stop on our journey through Jewish History and Culture. This stop is the O
 ttoman Empire of the 16th and 17th Century which was another golden age fo
 r Diaspora Jewry.\n\nThose of you who participated in the program about th
 e destruction of the Jewish communities of Poland during the Chmielnicki M
 assacres of 1648 (and their subsequent reconstruction) will recall that wh
 ile many Jews were killed\, many were transported to the slave markets of 
 Istanbul where they were redeemed by the Jews of the Ottoman Empire. This 
 program focuses on that community.\n\nHoward plans to gather and share mat
 erials on Jewish life in the Ottoman Empire\, and Istanbul\, Salonica and 
 Izmir\, each of which had substantial Jewish communities. If you would lik
 e to receive those materials\, please let Howard know by clicking here.\n\
 nThis lecture by Professor Mark Stein of Muhlenberg College\, follows the 
 fleeing Jews of Spain and Portugal to the Ottoman Empire where they develo
 ped the largest and most prosperous Jewish community of that time.\n\nWhil
 e Jews and Christians were dhimmi's\, subordinated but recognized religiou
 s groups\, they were free and encouraged to participate in the economy of 
 an enormous empire\, while being allowed to run their own communal institu
 tions.\n\nThe arrival of the Jews coincided with the expansion of the Otto
 man Empire providing an environment in which the Empire and the newly arri
 ved Sephardic Jewish community could grow and prosper in a mutually benefi
 cial way.\n\nProfessor Mark Stein\nAs an historian of the Middle East\, Ma
 rk Stein teaches a wide variety of courses focused on that world region. I
 n addition to broad survey courses\, he offers upper-level courses on topi
 cs such as the Arab-Israeli Conflict\, the Mongols\, Women in the Middle E
 ast\, and the Ottoman Empire. All courses explore the diverse consequences
  of encounters between states\, peoples\, and cultures. Mark Stein's train
 ing as an historian was in the social and economic history of the Ottoman 
 Empire\, and his first book was a study of seventeenth-century Ottoman adm
 inistration of that empire's frontier with the Habsburgs in Hungary. His c
 urrent research builds on that topic\, to consider more widely the social\
 , economic\, political\, and military aspects of the Ottoman-Habsburg fron
 tier. Stein is also interested in the broader questions of frontier histor
 y\, particularly when placed in a comparative framework.
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