Signed Copy of Jews of Edirne

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Own a special signed edition of Jews of Edirne by our guest lecturer Jacob Daniels. This exclusive copy includes the author’s signature on the title page/front flyleaf, making it a unique memory of his visit to Mikveh Israel and a perfect gift for fans of Sephardic Jewish history. Since his lectures are happening on Shabbat, the book that you purchase will be available for pickup at the synagogue on Saturday June 21 at lunch.

THANK YOU FOR EVERYONE WHO PURCHASED A BOOK. WE ARE CURRENTLY SOLD OUT. FOR THOSE INTERESTED IN THE FUTURE ABOUT PURCHASING A NON-SIGNED BOOK. PLEASE REACH OUT TO OUR OFFICE.

Own a special signed edition of Jews of Edirne by our guest lecturer Jacob Daniels. This exclusive copy includes the author’s signature on the title page/front flyleaf, making it a unique memory of his visit to Mikveh Israel and a perfect gift for fans of Sephardic Jewish history. Since his lectures are happening on Shabbat, the book that you purchase will be available for pickup at the synagogue on Saturday June 21 at lunch.

 

At the turn of the twentieth century, the city of Edirne was a bustling center linking Istanbul to Ottoman Europe. It was also the capital of Edirne Province—among the most religiously diverse regions of the Ottoman Empire. But by 1923, the city had become a Turkish border town, and the province had lost much of its non-Muslim population. With this book, Jacob Daniels explores how one of the world's largest Sephardi communities dealt with the encroachment of modern borders.

Using Ladino, French, English, and Turkish sources, Daniels offers a new take on the ways in which ethno-religious minorities experienced the transition "from empire to nation-state." Rather than tracing a linear path, Edirne Jews zigzagged between the Ottoman Empire and three nation-states—without moving a mile. And by maintaining interstate Sephardi networks, they resisted pressure to treat the shifting border as a limit to their zone of belonging. Ultimately, proximity to the border would undo Edirne's Jewish community, but the way this ending came about—local Jews were rarely killed or deported—challenges common assumptions about state borders and Jewish history. By studying Jewish encounters with the nation-state alongside the emergence of modern borders, Daniels sheds light on both phenomena.