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Memories of the Meldar: An Ottoman Jew’s Early Education
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Did you go to a meldar as a child? Have any of you been so lucky and blessed? I am sure that, seeing these two questions, you will all object that you had no idea what a meldar was and that you went…

Contributor:

Alexander Benghiat

Places:

Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Turkey)

Date:

1920

Subjects:

Adolescence, Scholarship, Education, Memory, Sephardic

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries, Reportage
A Blood Libel in Stanimaka
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Twelve-year old Ivan Demitrov, a fourth-grade student in the Bulgarian school, was scolded by his Bulgarian teacher for not sitting still in school on Friday, the tenth of this month. After playing in…

Contributor:

Joseph Barishac

Places:

Edirne, Ottoman Empire (Edirne, Turkey)

Date:

1912

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Cities, Antisemitism, Family, Blood libel

Categories:

Literature, Reportage, Journalism