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Letter Addressed to the Conference of Constantinople in Favor of the Jews of the Orient
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Paris, December 1876 To Mr. President and Members of the Conference of Constantinople Sirs, You were nominated to discuss the interests of a great number of people in the Orient, and to accomplish a…

Contributor:

Unknown

Places:

Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)

Date:

1877

Subjects:

Scholarship, Diaspora, Ladino, Community, Sephardic

Categories:

History, Historical Writing, Literature, Journalism, Firsthand Accounts
Editor’s Note in Sha‘are mizraḥ (Gates of the East)
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We gratefully acknowledge the signs of munificence shown to us by His Majesty’s government which has officially licensed our periodical, Sha‘are mizraḥ. We understand that this benevolence of His…

Contributor:

Rafael Uziel

Places:

Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Turkey)

Date:

1846

Subjects:

Writing, Assimilation, Jewish languages, Ladino, Scholarship

Categories:

Political Culture, Firsthand Accounts, Journalism
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